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Author Forlani Tempesti, Anna.

Title Italian fifteenth- to seventeenth-century drawings / Anna Forlani Tempesti.

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 388 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Robert Lehman collection ; 5
Robert Lehman collection ; 5.
Form Also issued in print.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and indexes.
Summary Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented-figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Local Note Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable)
Subject Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969.
Art museums.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Subject Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Catalogs.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Drawing, Italian -- Catalogs.
Drawing, Italian.
Drawing -- Italy -- 15th century -- Catalogs.
Drawing.
Italy.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Drawing -- Italy -- 16th century -- Catalogs.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Drawing -- Italy -- 17th century -- Catalogs.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs.
New York (State) -- New York.
Chronological Term 1400-1699
Indexed Term Geschichte 1400-1700
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Added Author Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Added Title Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 5, Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings
Other Form: Print version: Forlani Tempesti, Anna. Italian fifteenth- to seventeenth-century drawings. (OCoLC)22984735
ISBN 0870996061
9780870996061
0691040931 (Princeton)
9780691040936 (Princeton)