Italian fifteenth- to seventeenth-century drawings Anna Forlani Tempesti

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forlani Tempesti, Anna

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Series:

Robert Lehman collection 5

The Robert Lehman collection 5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969--Art collections--Catalogs.

Lehman, Robert.

Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Drawing--Italy--15th century--Catalogs.

Drawing.

Drawing--Italy--16th century--Catalogs.

Drawing, Italian--Catalogs.

Drawing, Italian.

Drawing--Italy--17th century--Catalogs.

Drawing--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Art--Private collections.

Italy.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 388 pages) illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 5, Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings.

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [1991]

Princeton Princeton University Press [1991]

Summary:

Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and indexes

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Forlani Tempesti, Anna. Italian fifteenth- to seventeenth-century drawings.

ISBN:

0870996061

9780870996061

0691040931

9780691040936

OCLC:

864829767