Reproducing Revolutionary images

Anonymous Patron writes “Boston.com Reports in an effort to raise money to expand the Massachusetts archives’ exhibition space at Columbia Point, the state has taken three of Revere’s copper plates out of storage and run them through the printing press, and is selling the set for $1,200.

The Boston Massacre print ”was a super powerful piece of propaganda,” says Julien Tavener, president of Haley and Steele. ”The more you get into the picture, it reveals more complexity. One part is referential to Roger Van der Weyden’s ‘Descent From the Cross.’ A wealthy person with a classical education would see it as a pieta. It implies resurrection. Within a few weeks, it became the ubiquitous image of the event. It’s a piece of iconography.””

December 21, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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