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| A few definitions PRINTMAKING: process by which a work of art is reproduced using a wooden, copper or stone support, either cut in relief or engraved in intaglio. Relief techniques include xylography or wood-engraving. Intaglio techniques, (engraving) include burin or etching. Techniques such as mezzotint, aquatint and lithography did not exist in Jacques Stella's time. The ink is applied to the lines traced on the polished copperplate and then applied to the paper using a press. PRINT: image created using a printmaking process. Unlike paintings or drawings, prints are not a unique work but one of a series of prints which can be repeated a certain number of times. INVENTION: composition invented by an artist, usually in the form of a drawing, which may be engraved by another artist. The latter is known as a "reproductive printmaker". ATTICISM: This expression characterises Parisian art between 1640 and 1660. After the fervour of paintings by Simon Vouet, a whole new generation of artists endeavoured to create more rigorous, restrained works, increasingly intellectualized but highly poetic, using a light and bright colour palette, smooth touch and striving for accuracy in the archaeological details. The controlled emotions and delicate nature of the scenes were intended as a reference to the harmony of the Augustan age. Laurent de La Hyre, Eustache Le Sueur and Jacques Stella are the most obvious representatives.
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