Online registration for the conference Impressions of Colour: Rediscovering Colour in Early Modern Printmaking, ca 1400-1700 (University of Cambridge, 8-9 December 2011) has opened at
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1659.

Despite the significance and scale of recent discoveries about early colour printing, ca. 1400-ca. 1700, the bias against colour continues to dominate print scholarship; the colour in these colour prints is often ignored. Now that techniques that were thought to have been isolated technical experiments seem to have been relatively common practice, a new, unified history of, and conceptual framework for, early modern colour printing has become necessary, and significant aspects of early modern print culture now must be reconsidered. This conference aims to explore new methodologies and foster new ways of understanding the development of colour printing in Europe through an interdisciplinary consideration of the production.

There are three special events. Places for the demonstration of colour printing in the Historical Printing Room, University Library, and for the guided display of early colour prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum are limited and will be allocated first come, first served. The display of early colour-printed book illustrations at the University Library will be open to all delegates.

Student bursaries are available through a generous subvention from the Bibliographical Society and will be allocated in the order of registration. Details are on the conference website.

The conference is convened by Ad Stijnman (University of Amsterdam) and Elizabeth Upper (University of Cambridge), with assistance from Emily Gray (Courtauld Institute/British Museum). Please contact impressionsofcolourgmail.com with any questions.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
DAY ONE
Thursday, 8 December: Techniques and Technical Approaches to Early Colour Printing

9.00 - 9.30: Registration

9.45 - 10.30: Keynote by Peter Parshall (former Curator of Old Master Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), introduced by Jean Michel Massing (Professor, History of Art, King’s College, Cambridge)

11.00 - 12.30: Panel: Between Hand and Machine, 1400-1500, chaired by Ad Stijnman (PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam)
- Lieve Watteeuw (Conservator, Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) & Jan van der Stock (Director, Centre for the Study of the Illuminated Manuscript, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Stencilling as a Precursor to Colour Printing: The ‘Brussels Madonna’ of 1418 Reconsidered
- Thomas Primeau (Associate Paper Conservator, Baltimore Museum of Art): Stencil Coloring for the Mass Production of Colored Prints
- Kathryn Rudy (Lecturer, Art History, University of St Andrews): The Birgittines of The Netherlands: Experimental Colourists

12.30 - 14.15: Break & Printing Demonstration by Nick Smith (former Deputy Head of Rare Books, University Library, University of Cambridge)

14.15 - 15.15: Panel: Technical Approaches to Late Medieval Colour Printing, 1400-1500, chaired by Linda Stiber Morenus (Paper Conservator, Library of Congress)
- Doris Oltrogge (Institute for Conservation Sciences, Cologne): Colour Printing in the Late 15th and 16th Centuries: Recipes and Analysis
- Mayumi Ikeda (Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science, Keio University): Colour Matters: The Fust and Schöffer Office and the Printing of the Two-Coloured Initials in the 1457 Mainz Psalter

15.15 - 16.45: Panel: Colour Printing in Workshop Practice, 1500-1700, chaired by Elizabeth Upper (PhD candidate, History of Art, King’s College, Cambridge)
- Linda Stiber Morenus (Paper Conservator, Library of Congress): Chiaroscuro Woodcut Printing in 16th century Italy: Technique in Relation to Artistic Style
- Ad Stijnman:The Development of Colour Intaglio Printing
- Sarah Lowengard (Associate Professor, Cooper Union, New York): To the Center from the Periphery: Technological and Social Changes in Color-printing Workshops

17.15 - 17.15: Panel: Technical Approaches to Chiaroscuro, 1500-1600, chaired by Mark McDonald (Curator of Old Master Prints and Spanish Drawings, British Museum)
- Shelley Langdale (Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art), Nancy Ash (Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Beth Price (Senior Scientist, Philadelphia Museum of Art): Changing Spectrums: Analytical challenges and New Technical Approaches in Examining 16th-century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts
- Naoko Takahatake (Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art): Concept and Intention: Color in 16th- and Early 17th-century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts

9.00 - 10.30: Panel: German ‘Chiaroscuro’ Woodcuts, 1500-1650, chaired by Jean Michel Massing
- Elizabeth Upper: Blood in Books and Wood Grain on Walls: Reconsidering the Fucntions of Colour Woodcuts in Early Modern Germany
- Alice Klein (PhD candidate, History of Art, University of Strasbourg): Hans Wechtlin and the Production of the German Chiaroscuro Woodcuts
- Anja Grebe (Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Bamberg): Dürer in ‘clair-obscur’: Early Modern Graphic Aesthetics and the Posthumous Production of Colour Prints

11.00 - 12.30: Panel: Netherlandish Chiaroscuro Woodcuts, 1550-1600, chaired by Nancy Bialler (Senior Vice President, Sotheby’s)
- Edward Wouk (Chester Dale Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art): The Flourish of Colour in Antwerp Printing ca. 1555
- Marjolein Leesberg (The New Hollstein): Hendrick Goltzius’s Chiaroscuros Revisited
- Virginie D’Haene (Registrar, Prints and Drawings, Groeningemusuem, Bruges): ‘Met gronden en hooghsels cluchtich’: On the Grounding and Heightening of Prints and Drawings in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

12.30 - 14.30: Break & Display at the Fitzwilliam introduced by Craig Hartley (Senior Assistant Keeper (Prints), Fitzwilliam Museum), with assistance from Amy Marquis (Study Room Supervisor, Fitzwilliam Museum)

14.30 - 16.00: Panel: Individual Approaches to Colour Printmaking, 1550-1650, chaired by Craig Hartley
- Joris van Grieken (Prints and Drawings, Royal Library of Belgium): Intaglio Printing in colour in 16th-Century Antwerp: The Case of Hieronymus Cock
- Huigen Leeflang (Curator of Prints, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam): Collecting Hercules Segers’s ‘Printed Paintings’
- Alexander Dencher (PhD candidate, Centre d'Histoire de l'Art de la Renaissance, Paris I): Colour in Printmaking in Early 17th-Century Paris

16.30 - 18.00: Panel: Intaglio Colour Printmaking and Entrepreneurship, 1650-1700, chaired by Sheila McTighe (Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art)
- Simon Turner (The New Hollstein): Exploring Colour Prints in the Teyler Manner
- Marrigje Rikken (PhD candidate, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, University of Leiden): A New Copy Printed in Colour of Carel Allard’s ‘Tooneel der voornaamste Nederlandse huizen en lusthoven’: A Hypothesis Validated or Falsified?
- Erik Hinterding (Editorial Board Member, Museum Het Rembrandthuis): The Use of Colour in Rembrandt’s Prints

18.00 - 18.15: Concluding Remarks by Peter Parshall