The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

by Paul Joannides

Overview

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 practiced by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521551335
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/21/2007
Pages:	508
Product dimensions:	8.86(w) x 11.22(h) x 1.34(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introductory essay: the dispersal and formation of Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of drawings by Michelangelo; Michelangelo's drawings; Appendix 1. Drawings by or attributed to Michelangelo in William Young Ottley's sales; Appendix 2. The Lawrence collection of drawings by and after Michelangelo.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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