18th century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: Jacob Bean and William Griswold.
Contributors: Bean, Jacob.; Griswold, William.
Publisher: The Museum; Distributed by H.N. Abrams
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Catalogs; Drawing, Italian -- 18th century -- Catalogs; Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Eighteenth century Italian drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Description: This volume describes and illustrates 283 drawings by Italian artists of the eighteenth century in the museums collection. Entries for the drawings provide essential bibliographical references, provenance, and a discussion of the purpose of the drawing, when known.
The Venetian school is particularly well represented, and the collection comprises splendid groups of drawings by Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. The other major artistic centers of the time-Bolognia, Florence, Genoa, Naples, and Rome-are all included, with fine drawings by Gaetano, Mauro, and Urbaldo Gandolfi, by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Lorenzo de Ferrari, Francesco de Mura, Pompeo Batoni, and Giovanni Paolo Panini, to name but a few of the more than ninety artists whose works are reproduced in this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 9-19).