Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

Author: Anna Forlani Tempesti

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0870996061

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Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.


Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750

Author: Rudolf Wittkower

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780300079418

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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.


Willem Drost (1633-1659)

Willem Drost (1633-1659)

Author: Jonathan Bikker

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0300105819

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"The book draws on extensive research to revise what has been known about Drost's life, his stylistically diverse oeuvre, and his influences. The artist's training and his relationship to Rembrandt and other artists in the Rembrandt circle are examined, as is his Venetian period and the relation of his style to that of German-born painter Johann Carl Loth. Drost emerges as one of Rembrandt's most talented imitators and, despite his very short career, an artist with a variety of faces."--BOOK JACKET.


An Italian Journey

An Italian Journey

Author: Linda Wolk-Simon

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1588393798

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 12-Aug 15, 2010.


Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450

Author: Laurence B. Kanter

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0870997254

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. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.


European Drawings 4

European Drawings 4

Author: Nicholas Turner

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2001-01-03

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0892365846

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The collection of drawings at the Getty Museum was started in 1981 with the purchase of Rembrandt’s Nude Woman with a Snake and has steadily expanded since then, so that now, at the turn of the new millennium, it stands at more than six hundred drawings and is, sheet for sheet, one of the best anywhere. The Getty goal is to create from the finest examples a collection of the different Western European schools of drawing before 1900, with special emphasis on the work of the most important and accomplished draftsmen. The collection now contains superb examples of the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Dürer, Rembrandt, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Gainsborough, David, Millet, Manet, Van Gogh, and Degas. This is the fourth in the series of catalogues describing the drawings in the Getty Museum. Most of the drawings discussed in the present volume were chosen for the collection in the period of 1994 to 1998 and include examples from the Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, French, Spanish, and British schools. Also included are several gifts from private collectors, which mark the start of a tradition that, it is hoped, will continue in the future. The catalogue entries for these new acquisitions are organized first by national school and then by artist. The book also includes a bibliography and indexes of artists, former owners, related drawings, prints, and works in other media.


Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi [published to Accompany the Exhibition Held at the Museo Del Palazzo Di Venezia, Rome, 15 October - 6 January 2002 ; the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, 14 February - 12 May 2002 ; the Saint Louis Art Museum, 15 June - 15 September 2002

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi [published to Accompany the Exhibition Held at the Museo Del Palazzo Di Venezia, Rome, 15 October - 6 January 2002 ; the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, 14 February - 12 May 2002 ; the Saint Louis Art Museum, 15 June - 15 September 2002

Author: Keith Christiansen

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1588390063

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This beautiful book presents the work of these two painters, exploring the artistic development of each, comparing their achievements and showing how both were influenced by their times and the milieus in which they worked.