The Albertina Museum

The Albertina Museum
Author: Klaus Albrecht Schroder
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1785511165

An illustrated selection of highlights from The Albertina's world-renowned collection of prints, drawings and paintings, featuring works from Old Masters as well as modern artists. The largest of the Hapsburg residential palaces, The Albertina in Vienna provides a stunning home to one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world. Named after its founder, passionate art collector Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822), the priceless collection comprises 50,000 drawings and watercolours and some 900,000 prints ranging from the late Gothic period to contemporary art. Here visitors can see world-famous works by da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael as well as Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt and Cézanne. The modern collection contains a vibrant array of works from a diverse range of artists: from Schiele, Klimt, Picasso and Pollock to Warhol, Katz, Baselitz and Kiefer. An extraordinary treasure trove of visual knowledge, The Albertina has also been gathering photographs since the mid-19th century, and holds around 50,000 plans, sketches and models in its Architecture Collection. This small volume showcases the highlights from this vast collection, as chosen by its Director. Follow @AlbertinaMuseum on Twitter (7350 followers).

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.

The Drawings of Stefano Da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy

The Drawings of Stefano Da Verona and His Circle and the Origins of Collecting in Italy
Author: Evelyn Karet
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780871692443

In this comprehensive catalogue of the work of the 15th-century painter and draftsman, Stefano da Verona (1375-ca. 1438), Karet reviews past scholarship and corrects old misunderstandings that produced an inconsistent, heterogeneous and misinformed corpus. Her attributions are based on stylistic arguments, technical analysis, and the relationship of the drawings to a limited number of secure paintings by this important Late Gothic North Italian painter. The restricted but sound body of works Stefano da Verona executed is compiled in rich catalogue entries that include discussions of style, iconography, patronage, paper and sketchbook analysis, important issues of workshop production and of the history of drawings and collectionism.

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.