1st Edition

Drawing, 1400-1600 Invention and Innovation

Edited By Stuart Currie Copyright 1998
265 Pages
by Routledge

265 Pages
by Routledge

265 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998,  this volume twelve scholars explore ways in which drawings were employed and appreciated in various European Cities form late medieval times, through the Renaissance and Reformation periods and into the early seventeenth century. The essayists examine the relationship between preparatory sketches and finished artworks in more durable and expensive materials, and... Read more

1. Drawing and Design in the Late Fourteenth-Century France: The Case for the Sculptor. Julia Watson.  2. Imitation, Invention or Good Business Sense? The Use of Drawings in a Group of Fifteenth-Century French Books of Horus, Susie Nash.  3. Training and Practice in the Early Renaissance Workshop: Observations on Benozzo Gozzoli’s Rotterdam Sketchbook, Francis Ames-Lewis.  4. Maso Finguerra and Early Florentine Printmaking, Lucy Whitaker.  5. Mantegna and Pullaiuolo: Artistic Personality and the Marketing of Invention, Alison Wright.  6. Luca Signorelli’s Studies of the Human Figure, Claire Van Cleave.  7. The ‘Deutsch’ and the ‘Welsch’ :Jorg Breau the Elder’s Sketch for the Story of Lucretia and the uses of Classicism in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Andrew Morrall.  8. Vasari, Prints and Imitation, Sharon Gregory.  9. Invenzione, Disegno e Fatica: Two Drawings by Giovambattista Naldini for an Altarpiece in Post-Tridentine Florance, Stuart Currie.  10. Drawings for Bartolomeo Passatotti’s Book of Anatomy, Monique Kornell.  11. Antonio Tempesta as Printmaker: Invention, Drawing and Technique , Michael Bury.  12. Early Modern Collecting in Northern Europe: Copied Drawings and Printed Prototypes, Tarnya Cooper.

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Stuart Currie