Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings - Softcover

Hugo Chapman; Marzia Faietti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714126675 ISBN 13: 9780714126678

Publisher: British Museum Press, 2010

Synopsis

Charts the history of drawing in Italy from 1400, just prior to the emergence in Florence of the classically inspired naturalism of the Renaissance style, to around 1510 when Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian were on the verge of taking the innovations of earlier masters, such as Leonardo and Pollaiuolo, in a new direction.

About this title

Review:

"...an extraordinarily useful essay...the clearest explanation of drawing and purest justification for treasuring drawings I have ever read" -- Brian Sewell, Evening Standard, 22 April 2010

An informative and erudite overview, a priceless resource to any student or art-historian with a specialist interest in, or wish to learn about, drawing. --The Art Book, Vol.17, Iss.4, Nov 2010

About the Author:

Hugo Chapman is Curator of Italian Drawings before 1800 at the British Museum. He is author of Padua in the 1450s: Marco Zoppo and his Contemporaries (1998), Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master (2005), and Michelangelo (2005). Marzia Faietti is Director of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi in Florence. She has published widely on Old Master drawings and prints with a particular emphasis on 16th-century art from her native Emilia.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0714126675
• ISBN 13: 9780714126678
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344