The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings

The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings
Author: Michael Jaffe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 1994-11-01
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9780714829371

The collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, ranks as one of the great princely collections of Europe. Formed in the 18th-century by the first, second and third Dukes, the collection contains sheets by the great masters of every artistic school. Alongside the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, it constitutes the finest privately owned group of such drawings in Britain.

The Drawings of Bronzino

The Drawings of Bronzino
Author: Carmen Bambach
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 1588393542

Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).