Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance

Van Cleave, Claire

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0714126543 ISBN 13: 9780714126548

Casa editrice: British Museum Pubns Ltd, 2007

This book showcases 112 superb drawings by Italian artists of the 15th and 16th centuries. Taken from the pre-eminent collections of the British Museum, the Louvre and other French museums, they range from meticulous compositions in metalpoint to sweeping chalk studies. Most were made as preparatory designs for paintings, exploring the human figure or drapery, experimenting with the arrangement of groups of figures or working out architectural details.

Product Description:

This book features masterpieces of Italian Renaissance drawings from the British Museum, the Louvre and other French public collections in Lille, Rennes and Montpellier. Beginning with an examination of drawing as part of the creative process, showing how it reveals the artists mind at work, it explains the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings. It also considers how drawings were used, how they changed stylistically through the period and how they varied in different regions of Italy. It concludes with a brief look at connoisseurship and collecting. The main body of the book showcases 120 of the finest drawings by more than 40 Italian Renaissance masters, accompanied by a brief biography and introduction to the drawings of each artist.