Italian Master Drawings At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Contributors: Anne D'Harnoncourt (Foreword); Innis Howe Shoemaker (Foreword)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780271025384
Subjects: Drawing & drawings; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; History; Art & Art Instruction; History: World; Italy; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; European; History - General; Europe - General; Drawing; Drawing, Italian; Exhibitions; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art
Description: "The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy's art history, ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Futurist and contemporary works by such famed artists as Parmigianino, Francesco Salviati, Guercino, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Pompeo Batoni, and Amedeo Modigliani. With this publication, eighty of these drawings are provided with commentary, complete scholarly analysis, and biographies of the artists by the renowned scholar Mimi Cazort. The volume opens with an illustrated essay by Ann Percy, the Museum's Curator of Drawings, who offers the first full account of the people and events that shaped the formation of this exceptional but little-published collection."--BOOK JACKET.