num_pages: 150
description: This collection never before published in the United States presents art from the early fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. Selected with great care and impeccable taste by a highly respected artist and teacher these drawings are the finest efforts of great masters of Western art a rich and glowing collection that will be treasured by every art lover.The artists whose work is represented include world-famous greats of the Italian Renaissance Flemish masters members of the Dutch and French schools and British artists. In addition to the expected well-known drawings by Rembrandt Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Brueghel Rubens Fragonard Drer Raphael and others of their standing there are scores of brilliant efforts by lesser known Francesco Francia Mabuse Huber Breu Urs Graf van Goyen Wouwerman Antoine Pesne Natoire Basaiti and many others. And instead of only pen or pencil drawings the collection includes a wide variety of chalk bistre sepia watercolor crayon charcoal silverpoint and pastel.But regardless of the medium used each of the drawings is superbly reproduced. Lines are clear and sharp and shaded areas are rich in contrasts. As often as possible the drawings are presented in full size so that they are as close to the originals as they can be. Arranged chronologically by artist the 150 plates are all described the artist noted and his dates given and the technique used in each case stated in a detailed list of the plates.
language: English
title: 150 Masterpieces of Drawing
publisher: Dover Publications