ARTES is delighted to announce the publication of Mark McDonald’s book Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV (440 pp., with 275 colour illustrations) published by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Pedro de Villafranca (c. 1615–1684), the artist uniquely appointed as “king’s printmaker” during the reign of Philip IV.
Mark McDonald is in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and was formerly Curator of Old Master Prints and Spanish Paintings at the British Museum.
For further details about the book, please consult the CEEH website, where this publication can also be purchased: https://www.ceeh.es/publicacion/pedro-de-villafranca-printmaker-at-the-court-of-philip-iv/
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