The surviving corpus of securely attributed drawings by Agnolo di Cosimo Mariano di Tori, called Agnolo Bronzino (15031572), numbers 62 or so sheetsan extraordinarily small number, by all accounts, ...for a Tuscan artist of his generation, even if one takes into consideration the losses due to the ravages of time. The reasons for this paucity have been explored elsewhere.
The altarpiece of the "Madonna del popolo" (1579) is the most influential painting by Federico Barocci. The artist made the largest number of known preliminary drawings for the altarpiece, showing ...that it was significant for him and for his patrons. It also shows his development of mystic naturalism.
This fifth article in a series reconsidering key works of art history written in the 20th century looks at Bernard Berenson's "The Drawings of the Florentine Painters", first published in two volumes ...in 1903, and reissued in greatly revised, expanded editions of three volumes in 1938 and 1961 (in Italian). Suggests that it is very rare for a book on a specialised subject to speak to its field and its specialists over a hundred years later, but this is such a work. In assessing the impact of Berenson's three editions the temptation must be resisted of speaking in terms of what he got wrong; such judgments can be made precisely today because of historical hindsight on a field that Berenson largely founded. If one considers the enormous body of works that he analysed and wrote about almost 3,500 sheets by 1961 his ratio of discoveries and of convincing attributions is simply staggering, whether for a connoisseur of his time or of today. (Quotes from original text)
Publishes a recently discovered sketch of an ornamental design with six putti flanking an antique-style amphora, now held in the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden. The drawing can be attributed to the ...Florentine period of the young Raphael, and dated c.1504-08. The sheet offers a surprisingly exact, if much refined and partly conflated, visual quotation of a repeating section in the friezes of putti on Donatello's two bronze pulpits in the church of S. Lorenzo, Florence, dating from c.1460-66. il. refs.
Reviews the exhibition Andrea del Sarto : the Renaissance workshop in action, which was on show at J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles before traveling to the Frick Collection in New York through 10 ...January 2016.
Italian Renaissance drawings Bambach, Carmen C
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Review of the exhibition "Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings" on show at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (01 Feb-30 April 2011), featuring drawings by ...various artists at work between 1400 and 1510. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is available.
The exhibition "Italian Renaissance drawings," which featured art from 1400 to 1510, is reviewed. It is held at the British Museum in London, England, to July 25, 2011, and the Gabinetto Disegni e ...Stampe degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, to June 11, 2011.
