Capturing the sublime
Subtitle: Italian drawings of the renaissance and baroque
By: edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, with the assistance of Kate Tierney Powell
Contributors: Art Institute of Chicago
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780300179705
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; ART / European; Renaissance Drawing; Art collections; Private collections; ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections; Baroque Drawing; Italian Drawing; ART / Techniques / Drawing
Description: "This handsome volume brings together an impressive array of scholars, who analyze an outstanding private collection of 175 Old Master drawings that date from the 16th through the 18th century. The collection vibrantly revealed here includes a wide variety of drawings--from sketches and figure drawings to copies after masters and preliminary studies for major compositions--and features the work of many important Italian artists, including Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Baccio Bandinelli, Pontormo, Perino del Vaga, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Salvator Rosa, Guercino, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, among many others.Each work is reproduced and accompanied by complete documentation: physical description, provenance, bibliography, and exhibition history, as well as background information on the subjects captured in the drawings. Capturing the Sublime opens the beauty of these drawings to a broader public and provides important new attributions and scholarship"--
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 25 to July 8, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.