Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

About the author

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Ph.D. (1981) in Art History, Bryn Mawr College, is Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College. He has published extensively on Italian Renaissance painting, prints, and architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Witcombe
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9789004137486
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13748-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 245 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 925 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries