Printmaking theory from the beginning of printmaking until its establishment within the academic arts in the 18th. century

该项目分析了印刷图像的理论，从15世纪这种媒介的开始到18世纪它在学术艺术中的建立。在版画理论一直是近代早期艺术理论的一部分的假设下，即在版画成为一种学术艺术职业之前，本项目首次在早期现代论著中广泛分析了关于版画的主要论述。在此基础上，该项目汇编了一本关于版画的最重要的文本选集，并通过这本选集回答了主要问题：18世纪之前创造了什么样的版画理论，它具有什么功能。分析版画文本的底线包括三个主要问题：创作、模仿等一般艺术概念、艺术批评家和版画技术问题的讨论。在该项目期间，有可能扩大版画文本的数量。现在，我们将对这些文本进行广泛的分析。新的来源还需要深入讨论本项目选集的文本选择，以及关于艺术的文本类别和来源的一般性讨论。这将在项目的延长阶段完成。该项目的第二部分直接处理打印的图像。为了更好地理解18世纪以前的版画理论，对一批版画进行了分析。该项目的重点是工作，即解决理论问题。其目的是验证和举例说明如何理解印刷图像的概念，这些概念写在关于版画的文本中。该项目的第一个结果，从文本和印刷图像的分析，表明版画的技术方面对版画理论的影响比项目开始时假设的更大。因此，有必要更深入地分析版画等版画技法的意义，最重要的是考察艺术文本如何处理版画的创新。因此，在项目的延长期内，将对更多的打印图像进行分析，例如通过特殊的、不寻常的技术制作的图像。该项目的结果验证了这一假设，即版画理论考虑的是画面的概念和一般的艺术理论。因此，对版画理论的分析也意味着对艺术理论史的修正。该项目主要集中在版画创作的主要中心，这是：意大利，荷兰，法国和德国。

The project analyzes the theory of the printed image from the beginning of this medium in the 15th century until its establishment within the academic arts in the 18th century. On the assumption that the printmaking theory was always a part of the art theory in the early modern era, that means before printmaking became an academic artistic profession, the project analyzes for the first time extensively within the early modern treatises the main statements about printmaking. With that the project assembles an anthology of the most important texts about printmaking and with this anthology the project answers to the main question: what kind of theory of printmaking was created before the 18th century and what functions did it have. The bottom line in analyzing the texts about printmaking consists in three main issues: general art concepts like invention, imitation etc., art critics and the discussion of technical problems of the printmaking. During the project it was possible to enlarge the number of texts on printmaking. Now, this texts are to be analyze extensively. The new sources demand also a deep discussion about the selection of the texts for the anthology in this project and a general discussion about the categories of texts and sources about arts. This is to be done in the prolongation phase of the project. The second part of the project deals directly with the printed images. A selection of prints is to be analyze, in order to understand better the theory of printmaking before the 18th century. The project focuses works, that figures theoretical problems. The aim is to verify and to exemplify, how the concepts of the printed image, written in the texts about printmaking, can be comprehended. The first results of the project, from the analysis of texts and the printed images, show that the technical aspects of printmaking are more influential to the printmaking theory, then it was assumed at the beginning of the project. Therefore it is necessary to analyze more deeply the significance of the printmaking techniques like engraving etc. and above all to examine, how the texts on art deal with the innovations of the printmaking. Consequently further printed images are going to be analyze in the prolongation period of the project, for instances images made by special, uncommon techniques. The results of the project verify the hypothesis, that the theory of printmaking considers the concept of the picture and the theory of arts in general. Therefore the analysis of the printmaking theory means also a revision of the history of the art theory. The project focuses the main centers of printmaking, this is: Italy, Netherlands, France and Germany.