This volume explores the ways in which drawings were employed and appreciated in various European cities from late medieval times, through to the Renaissance and Reformation periods and into the early 17th century. The essays examine the relationship between preparatory sketches and finished artworks in more durable and expensive materials, and consider roles played by various drawing types such as studies from different kinds of model and student copies from a master's examplar. They also investigate how drawings and their ...
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This volume explores the ways in which drawings were employed and appreciated in various European cities from late medieval times, through to the Renaissance and Reformation periods and into the early 17th century. The essays examine the relationship between preparatory sketches and finished artworks in more durable and expensive materials, and consider roles played by various drawing types such as studies from different kinds of model and student copies from a master's examplar. They also investigate how drawings and their mechanically reproduced equivalents - engravings, etchings, etc - came to be collected for both practical and connoisseurial purposes, and how iconographic and stylistic inventiveness were linked to imaginative artistic interpretations of traditional subjects and to technical innovations in drawings and printmaking.
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VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Tan cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; tan dj with bw illustration on front cover, mylar cover; xxii, 237 pp; bw illustrations. Essays based on papers presented at a conference of the Association of Art Historians in 1994 at the University of Birmingham. Contents: Drawing and design in late fourteenth-century France: the case for the sculptor / Julia Watson--Imitation, invention or good business sense? : the use of drawings in a group of fifteenth-century French Books of Hours / Susie Nash--Training and practice in the early Renaissance workshop: observations on Benozzo Gozzoli's Rotterdam sketchbook / Francis Ames-Lewis--Maso Finiguerra and early Florentine printmaking / Lucy Whitaker--Mantegna and Pollaiuolo: artistic personality and the marketing of invention / Alison Wright--Luca Signorelli's studies of the human figure / Claire Van Cleave--The 'Deutsch' and the 'Welsch': Jörg Breu the Elder's sketch for the Story of Lucretia and the uses of classicism in sixteenth-century Germany / Andrew Morrall--Vasari, prints and imitation / Sharon Gregory--Invenzione, disegno e fatica: two drawings by Giovambattista Naldini for an altarpiece in post-Tridentine Florence / Stuart Currie--Drawings for Bartolomeo Passarotti's Book of anatomy / Monique Kornell--Antonio Tempesta as printmaker: invention, drawing and technique / Michael Bury--Early modern collecting in Northern Europe: copied drawings and printed prototypes / Tarnya Cooper.
