Lorrain, Claude: British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum - Softcover

Whiteley, J

9780714126159: Lorrain, Claude: British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714126152 ISBN 13: 9780714126159

Publisher: British Museum Press, 1998

Published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, this catalogue looks at Claude Lorrain, as a draughtsman, focusing on his style and technique. The majority of the drawings are taken from the collections of the British Museum, with a selection from the lesser-known collection of his work fromhoused in the Ashmoleon Museum. They include Claude's "Liber Veritatis", preparatory drawings and nature studies composed in the Italian countryside. These allow a reappraisal of the range of his drawing styles and offer an opportunity to look again at the role of drawing within his art as a whole.

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