Manuzio, Aldo
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1449 or 1450-1515
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Aldus Manutius, 1495, 1966-1971
Item — Painting 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
"Graphic Communications Through the Ages" commemorates significant milestones in the history of communications technologies: the development of paper and character forms, typography design, and printing. The paintings were commissioned in 1966 by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah, Wisconsin, who employed three internationally-known historical illustrators to produce the series: Robert A. Thom (1915-1979), Douglas M. Parrish (1922-2001), and George I. Parrish, Jr.(1930-1992)....
Dates:
1966-1971
