Contributions

  • Ashmolean Museum. - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

122,750 words, Guess

Page Count

491 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006022395
  • Goodreads1159136
  • LibraryThing5819269

Classifications

  • DDC741.945
  • LCCNC257.B8 A4 2007

Description

This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It is one of the most important collections of drawings by this artist, which also includes drawings after his own by contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practised by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman. Most of the drawings in the Ashmolean Museum came from the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and this book contains a detailed appendix that traces the histories of all of the drawings by or after Michelangelo that Lawrence owned, both before he acquired them and after they were dispersed.

Description

"This volume comprises a full and detailed catalogue of drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. The Ashmolean possesses the third largest collection in the world of drawings by Michelangelo - after the Casa Buonarroti and the British Museum - and a rich group of drawings by Michelangelo's pupils and close associates, as well as a number of contemporary copies after drawings by the master that have subsequently been lost. It also houses a significant number of copies, the majority of the sixteenth century, after Michelangelo's works in all media, that shed light on his reputation and influence among his contemporaries and immediate successors."--book jacket.

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Topics

ArtDrawingCatalogsInfluenceNonfictionItalian DrawingArt collections

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Other Editions

  • The drawings of Michelangelo and his followers in the Ashmolean MuseumCambridge University Press2007-01-01

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