Drawing in Venice
Subtitle: Titian to Canaletto
By: Catherine Whistler ; with Marzia Faietti, Giorgio Marini, Jacqueline Thalmann and Angelamaria Aceto
Contributors: Faietti, Marzia, writer of added text; Marini, Giorgio, writer of added text; Thalmann, Jacqueline, writer of added text; Aceto, Angelamaria, writer of added text; Ashmolean Museum
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781854442994
Subjects: Exhibitions; Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi; Art collections; Christ Church (University of Oxford); Ashmolean Museum; Italian Drawing
Description: Featuring over a hundred drawings from the collections of graphic art at the Uffizi, Florence, and the Ashmolean Museum, and Christ Church, Oxford, Drawing in Venice is based on ground-breaking new research. Published to coincide with a major Ashmolean-Uffizi collaborative exhibition, it traces continuities in Venetian drawing over three centuries, from around 1500 down to the foundation of the first academy of art in Venice in 1750. This book highlights the significance of drawing as a concept and as a practice in the artistic life of Venice and considers this in the context of the dominance of the family studio tradition and the city's thriving print trade. The book also discusses the history of the reception and collecting of Venetian drawings both in Britain and in Italy.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, October 15, 2015 - January 10, 2016.

"Featuring over a hundred drawings from the outstanding collections of graphic art at the Uffizi, Florence, and the Ashmolean Museum, and Christ Church, Oxford."--Page [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.