Beginning with the origins of woodcut and engraving in the early fifteenth century, this class will examine the relation of print technologies to prior media, such as painting in oils and tempera, and drawing with metalpoint, lead, charcoal, and other kinds of stylus. One of the central issues we must consider, is the agency of prints in the formation of pictorial canons, the implementation of pictorial paradigms, and the promulgation of new forms of knowledge.