Capturing the sublime : Italian drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque / edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh, with the assistance of Kate Tierney Powell.

First edition.

9780300179705
0300179707

Chicago : The Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.

English

311 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

NC255 .C355 2012

741.945/07477311

"This handsome volume brings together an impressive array of scholars, who analyze an outstanding private collection of 175 Old Master drawings that date from the 16th through the 18th century. The collection vibrantly revealed here includes a wide variety of drawings--from sketches and figure drawings to copies after masters and preliminary studies for major compositions--and features the work of many important Italian artists, including Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Baccio Bandinelli, Pontormo, Perino del Vaga, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Salvator Rosa, Guercino, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, among many others.Each work is reproduced and accompanied by complete documentation: physical description, provenance, bibliography, and exhibition history, as well as background information on the subjects captured in the drawings. Capturing the Sublime opens the beauty of these drawings to a broader public and provides important new attributions and scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 25 to July 8, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-308) and index.

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