Drawing in silver and gold : Leonardo to Jasper Johns / Stacey Sell, Hugo Chapman ; with Kimberly Schenck, John Oliver Hand, Giulia Bartrum, An Van Camp, Bruce Weber, Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner, Jenny Bescoby.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sell, Stacey, author.

Chapman, Hugo, author.

Contributor:

National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.

British Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metalpoint drawing--Exhibitions.

Metalpoint drawing.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

313 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington [DC] : National Gallery of Art ; London : The British Museum ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Summary:

This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see around 100 exceptional drawings created using the exquisite metalpoint technique. It features works by some of the greatest artists working from the late 14th century to the present including Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Elder, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Otto Dix, Jasper Johns and Bruce Nauman. Works drawn from the British Museum's superb collection of metalpoint drawings sit alongside major loans from European and American museums as well as private collections, including four sheets by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection.--British Museum website.

Contents:

Drawings under scrutiny : the materials and techniques of metalpoint / Kimberly Schenck

Masters of silverpoint in the Netherlandish Renaissance / John Oliver Hand

Silverpoint drawings by German and Swiss Renaissance artists / Giulia Bartrum

The rise and decline of metalpoint drawing in Renaissance Italy / Hugo Chapman

Metalpoint drawings in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / An Van Camp

The silverpoint revival in nineteenth-century Britain / Stacey Sell

Modern and contemporary drawing in metalpoint / Bruce Weber

The technical examination of metalpoint drawings / Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner, and Jenny Bescoby.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, May 3-July 26, 2015 and the British Museum, September 10-December 6, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.

ISBN:

9780691166124

0691166129

OCLC:

902854168

Publisher Number:

99968606154