Platemark Episodes
s2e33 History of Prints William Hogarth (part one)
In this History of Western Prints (HoP) episode, Tru and I begin to explore the life and work of William Hogarth, the first British artist featured on Platemark’s HoP series. Hogarth, renowned as the father of Western sequential art, is …
s2e32 History of Prints Maria Sibylla Merian
In this History of Prints episode of Platemark, host Ann Shafer and subject matter expert Tru Ludwig explore the extraordinary life and legacy of Maria Sibylla Merian. Celebrated for her pioneering work on insect metamorphosis and her detailed...
s2e31 History of Prints The Enlightenment (part two)
Enlightenment publications on human anatomy changed the way artists understood their place in the world. Check out these examples of life-changing images brought to you by prints in books! In s2e31 of Platemark’s History of Prints series, Tru...
s2e30 History of Prints The Enlightenment (part one)
In Platemark’s History of Prints series, we are leaving the Baroque behind and are turning to the Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and eighteenth century is a fascinating time when social ideas focused on the value of knowledge in all sectors....
s2e29 History of Prints Claude Lorrain
In s2e29, Platemark hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig talk about Claude Lorrain, the arbiter of landscape painting in the 17th century. He worked most of his life in Rome and elevated landscape as a subject up the academic hierarchy …
s2e28 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part two)
In s2e28, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their two-part conversation about Claude Mellan. An encounter with Mellan’s best-known work, The Holy Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Sudarium, is to be a witness to greatness. The engraving...
s2e27 History of Prints Claude Mellan (part one)
In s2e27, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig begin a two-part conversation about Claude Mellan, who engraved the most astonishing portrait of Jesus Christ in the history of art. In fact, if it weren’t for his print of the Holy …
s2e26 History of Prints Jacques Callot (part two)
In s2e26, hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig conclude their conversation about Jacques Callot, where there is always more than meets the eye. He's of interest for many reasons, including his practice of making faster-to-create etchings look like...
s2e24 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part four)
Platemark s2e24 concludes hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. The stars of this episode are Hendrick Goltzius and Peter Paul Rubens. It’s about the business of prints, artists getting their designs out there, and...
s2e23 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part three)
Platemark s2e23 continues hosts Ann Shafer and Tru Ludwig’s conversation on reproductive prints. Once again, for clarity, a reproductive print is one in which an artist creates a design (a drawing, painting, sculpture) and another artist creates a...
s2e22 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part two)
More on reproductive prints, the backbone of the history of prints
s2e21 History of Prints Reproductive Prints (part one)
Platemark series two, A History of Western Prints, returns with an episode about reproductive prints. In s2e21, Tru Ludwig takes listeners back to a time when lives were lived with no images save for maybe what one saw in church. …
s2e20 History of Prints Rembrandt (religious scenes)
Humanizing biblical figures
s2e19 History of Prints Rembrandt (genre scenes and portraits)
Facial expressions in five lines or less
s2e18 History of Prints Rembrandt (landscapes)
Rembrandt is arguably the finest etcher ever
s2e16 History of Prints Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Proverbs, virtues, and vices
s2e15 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part two)
Martin Luther and prints by Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach
s2ep14 History of Prints The Protestant Reformation (part one)
The Protestant Reformation opens up all sorts of possibilities for artists
s2e13 History of Prints The Italians (Ghisi and Barocci)
Reproductive or autographic? Barocci does both simultaneously
s2e11 History of Prints The Italians (Parmigianino)
Mannerist painter/printmaker Parmigianino in the spotlight