Author: Turner, Nicholas
Title: From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings from the Prado
Description: Alexandria, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008. Softcover. Cream illustrated wraps with black lettering; French flaps; 464 pp. with over 500 illustrations. Each illustration described in detail, including its provenance; with a list of artists represented; includes a section about Pedro Fernandez Duran, art enthusiast and prominent patron of the Prado, who donated this collection in 1931. This is the catalogue for the exhibition held at the Prado and in the US 2008-2009. The sixteenth century was a key period for the development of drawing in Europe. The wide range of drawing types, the variety of regional and individual styles, and the importance which artists gave to this medium meant that this was an important time for the development of the technique. Painters learned that drawing was not just a practical exercise for the purposes of study but also that it allowed them great freedom in expressing their imaginations and individual artistic personalities. VG .

Keywords: European Art ; Prado / Italian Drawings ; ; Collections - European Art


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