The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum by Paul Joannides

The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum by Paul Joannides

This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It is one of the most important collections of drawings by this artist, which also includes drawings after his own by contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practised by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman. Most of the drawings in the Ashmolean Museum came from the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and this book contains a detailed appendix that traces the histories of all of the drawings by or after Michelangelo that Lawrence owned, both before he acquired them and after they were dispersed.

"Joannides offers an elegant, detailed, and throughly researched catalogue of these works, one that scrupulously takes into account previous such efforts, adding to them..while paving new ground in the discussion of copies of lost drawings...The volume is extremely manageable and clearly organized and written...An important contribution to Michelangelo scholarship that illuminates a key collection of sketches." Duke Pesta, Renaissance Quarterly

Paul Joannides, Reader in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, has published widely on the painting, sculpture, architecture, and above all, the drawings of the Italian Renaissance. He has also written on topics in French painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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ISBN 13	9780521551335
ISBN 10	0521551331
Title	The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum
Author	Paul Joannides
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Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2007-05-21
Number of pages	508
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