Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance - Hardcover

Van Cleave, C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674026772 ISBN 13: 9780674026773

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A beautifully designed selection of the finest Italian Renaissance drawings from the British Museum, the Louvre and other French public collections, giving remarkable insight into the creative processes of some of the greatest artists in history.

This book features masterpieces of Italian Renaissance drawings from the British Museum, the Louvre and other French public collections in Lille, Rennes and Chantilly.

Beginning with an examination of drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artist's mind at work, the author explains in detail 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 112 of the finest drawings by more than 40 Italian Renaissance masters, including Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, accompanied by a concise sketch of the life and work of each artist. Arranged chronologically, they reveal stylistic and geographical trends as well as personal interactions between the artists themselves, and provide an extraordinary insight in to the artistic world of Renaissance Italy.

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Review:

This is an exquisite book of thumbnail biographies and drawings of some of the best-known Renaissance masters, but also many of the lesser known. The drawings are arresting for their beauty.

The delicate reproductions are exquisite and fulsome, and Van Cleave's short bios of each of the great draughtsman are extremely cogent and lively.--Michael Coffey"Publishers Weekly" (09/17/2007)

About the Author:

Claire Van Cleave is a writer and lecturer on Old Master drawings and Renaissance art and a specialist on the work of Luca Signorelli. She is currently researching a book on Americans living in Florence in the late 19th and 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0674026772
• ISBN 13: 9780674026773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192