TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

Great Masters of European Printmaking Museo Franz Mayer Collection TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

Great Masters of European Printmaking Museo Franz Mayer Collection

This exhibition is composed of an outstanding selection of 90 prints from the 15th to 18th centuries by preeminent European artists, including Pieter Brueghel, Pieter van der Heyden, Albrecht Dürer, , Lucas Cranach, Anton van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan van de Velde II.

Through six sections—“Print Techniques: Materials and Tools,” “The Artistic Defense of Printmaking,” “Printmaking and the Liberal Arts,” “The Representation of Everyday Life,” “Divine Time and Earthly Time,” and “Speaking with Images”—the exhibition introduces the technical innovations, aesthetic languages, theoretical reflections, thematic repertoires, and cultural impact of this revolutionary artistic discipline.

Curator: Elsaris Núñez Méndez. Researcher in the Art of New Spain, Tania Vargas Díaz. Head of the Library and Documentary Holdings, Museo Franz Mayer Abraham Villavicencio. Head of Research, Museo Franz Mayer Number of Pieces: 90 pieces Number of thematic sections: 6 Space required: approximately 250–350 m² (2691–3768 ft.2) Available: starting in October 2020

For further information on traveling exhibitions please contact: Alejandro Sabido Director of Exhibitions and Research [email protected] 55 5518 2266 – ext. 257 E X P O SIC I ONE S ITIN E RANTES

Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, Germanic Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn States, 1471–1528) (Leiden, , 1606–Amsterdam, Nemesis (The Great Fortune) Netherlands, 1669) Germanic States (Germany), Christ before Pilate (Ecce Homo) ca. 1502 Holland, ca. 1630–1636 Engraving Etching and engraving

Pieter van der Heyden, engraver Lucas Van Leyden, (Leiden, Netherlands, (ca. 1530–ca.1572) ca. 1494–Leiden, Netherlands, 1533) Pieter Brueghel, painter (Netherlands, Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 1525–Belgium, 1569) (Noli me tangere) (, Flanders, Holland, 1519 1518–1570) Engraving Pride (from the series of The Seven Deadly Sins) Flanders (today Belgium), Print from 1558 Engraving on metal

Cornelis Dusart (, Lucas Cranach, (Bavaria, Germany, 1471– Netherlands, 1660–1704) Thuringia, Germany, 1553) The Cupper (Kopster) Young Man on Horseback Holland, 1695 Germany, 1506 Etching Woodcut

Jan van de Velde II (Rotterdam, Theodor Galle, engraving Netherlands, 1593–Enkhuizen, (Antwerp, Flanders, 1571–1633) Netherlands, 1641) Ioannis (Jan Van der Straet), Summer (from the series Painter (Bruges, Flanders, 1523–Florence, The Seasons of the Year) Grand Duchy of Tuscany, 1605) Holland, ca. 1593–1641 , editor (Haarlem, Netherlands, Engraving 1537–Antwerp, Flanders, 1612) America 16th-century print, engraving on metal