Drawing on blue : European drawings on blue paper, 1400s-1700s / edited by Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan with the assistance of Alec Aldrich ; contributions by Mari-Tere Álvarez, Thea Burns, Marie-Noëlle Grison, Camilla Pietrabissa, and Leila Sauvage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Edina, editor.

Sullivan, Michelle (Conservator), editor.

J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paper--Europe--History--Exhibitions.

Paper.

Drawing materials--Europe--History--Exhibitions.

Drawing materials.

Drawing, European--Exhibitions.

Drawing, European.

Physical Description:

ix, 149 pages illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2024]

Summary:

"Investigates the history of blue paper from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, giving consideration to issues of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Drawn to Blue: Introduction / Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan

Blue Paper in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy / Thea Burns

Making Blue Paper: Innovations in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750 / Leila Sauvage and Marie-Noëlle Grison

An Exercise on Blue: Learning to Draw in Jacopo Tintoretto's Workshop / Edina Adam

Jean-Baptiste Oudry: Blue Paper and Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-Century France / Camilla Pietrabissa

Color and Contrast in an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Drawing on Blue Paper: Francisco Bayeu / Mari-Tere Álvarez

Examination of Blue Paper: A Systematic Approach: Glossary of Technical and Historical Terms / Michelle Sullivan

Plates

Technical Appendixes.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from January 30 to April 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Drawing on blue.

ISBN:

9781606068670

1606068679

OCLC:

1374296757