Printing images in the early modern Low Countries. Patents, copyrights, and the separation of art and technology, 1555-1795 Ghent University
Like Instagram today, new print technology caused a revolutionary increase in the number of images in the early modern period. In that same era, art and technology became separated. Today, art and technology are considered different types of human making, practised at different institutes and studied by different disciplines. Yet the separation of art and technology is not obvious; it was developed in Western Europe in the early modern ...