Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy

Description

"The book opens with a brief history of earlier drawings and a discussion of the various artistic problems which drawings could help to resolve. Through the works of the major fifteenth-century draughtsmen - Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio, Carpaccio and Leonardo da Vinci - Francis Ames-Lewis then explores new types of drawing evolved during the century: the free sketch contrasting with the frozen control of the model-book, the exploratory study of the nude, the preparatory compositional sketch and the cartoon. He considers the problems and possibilities of different techniques and investigates studio practice and the relation of the drawing to the final work of art." "This incisive introduction to the subject of early Renaissance drawings throws fresh light on one of the great centuries of Italian art, and by reflection illuminates further the activities of the masters of the High Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

FIFTEENTH and sixteenth-century writers on the arts provide us with various kinds of source material for drawing in Central Italy, and especially in Florence, but pitifully little for North Italian drawing.

Excerpt

FIFTEENTH and sixteenth-century writers on the arts provide us with various kinds of source material for drawing in Central Italy, and especially in Florence, but pitifully little for North Italian drawing.

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Other Editions

• Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy: Revised EditionPaperbackYale University Press2000-03-11
• Drawing in early Renaissance ItalyYale University Press1981-01-01
• Drawing in early Renaissance ItalyYale University Press1981-01-01
• Drawing in early Renaissance Italy.Yale University Press1983-01-01
• Drawing in early Renaissance ItalyYale University Press2000-01-01