Author: PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Title: Italian master drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Description: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art 2004. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 287 pages; 'Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Italian master drawings. 1540 to present'. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 30 October. 2004-20 February. 2005'--T.p. verso. Also published in Italian as I grandi disegni italiani del Philadelphia Museum of Art. 287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Summary: 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.Weight in Kg appr.:

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