Master Drawings Close-up

Master Drawings Close-up
Author: Julian Brooks
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606060198

The purpose of this volume is to introduce the reader to the pleasure of looking at master drawings. Through forty-five spectacular works of art, each shown in full and with an enlarged detail, the book simulates the experience of looking at a drawing through a magnifying glass: we can see the techniques and materials used and get close to the artist's creativity. They are roughly ordered by date and were chosen for inclusion because, in addition to yielding beautiful details, they encompass a wide variety of media and techniques. Accompanying short texts highlight particular aspects of each work; italicized technical terms are explained in an accessible and informative glossary at the back. Works by some of the greatest masters of the craft--Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, Raphael, Rembrandt, Ingres, Goya, Seurat, and Van Gogh--are included. The reader will gain insights into why artists made drawings, how they used the media available to them--including red chalk, watercolor, pen and ink, and pastel--and their techniques, such as hatching, stumping, squaring, and heightening. This beautiful and unpretentious book will have a wide appeal and will be especially invaluable for art students, practicing artists, and those who study art and art history.

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer
Author: Andrew Robison
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9783791352879

Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 24-June 9, 2013, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Italian Master Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Italian Master Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0271025387

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy's art history, ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Futurist and contemporary works by such famed artists as Parmigianino, Francesco Salviati, Guercino, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Pompeo Batoni, and Amedeo Modigliani. With this publication, eighty of these drawings are provided with commentary, complete scholarly analysis, and biographies of the artists by the renowned scholar Mimi Cazort. The volume opens with an illustrated essay by Ann Percy, the Museum's Curator of Drawings, who offers the first full account of the people and events that shaped the formation of this exceptional but little-published collection.

150 Masterpieces of Drawing

150 Masterpieces of Drawing
Author:
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486316920

Full-page reproductions of drawings from the early 15th century to the end of the 18th century, all beautifully reproduced: Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Dürer, Fragonard, Urs Graf, Wouwerman, and many others.

Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art

Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Author: Smith College. Museum of Art
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781555951832

This newest volume in Hudson Hills Press's acclaimed series about leading collections of master drawings presents sixty-eight great sheets, all reproduced in full-color, including many versos, from one of the finest college museums in America.

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery

Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Author: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). Art Gallery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300114338

This beautiful and important book highlights the collection of European drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, one of America's premier university museums. From intimate studies to exquisite finished compositions, this selection of works documents the history of European drawing practices beginning with late-medieval model books and progressing to the verge of the modern period. The accompanying text--written by a team of scholars--offers a unique introduction to various critical and technical aspects of the study of master drawings, brought to life through drawings from a range of national schools and in a variety of media. Among the drawings examined in this handsomely produced volume are an animated pen and ink sketch by Giulio Romano, a pastoral landscape by Claude Lorrain, a forceful and humorous caricature by Guercino, a scene from the epic poem Orlando Furioso by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and a delicate portrait by Edgar Degas.

Master Class in Figure Drawing

Master Class in Figure Drawing
Author: Robert Beverly Hale
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823030149

Explains how to make realistic drawings of the arms, legs, feet, hands, and other parts of the human body

Master Drawings Rediscovered

Master Drawings Rediscovered
Author: Tatʹjana Afanasʹevna Ilatovskaja (Kuratorin.)
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Recently the art world learned that for nearly 50 years the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg had been holding a major trove of work from German private collections--treasures which were generally thought to have been lost or destroyed. This splendid volume reveals a magnificent collection of these works, including glories by Goya, Daumier, Menzel, Cezanne, and Toulouse-Lactrec. 200 illustrations, 89 in color.