GENOESE DRAWINGS.

Author: Schleier, Mary Newcome
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2004
No. of pages: 151
Illustrations: 25 Color Illustrations. 111 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 12”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8790096762
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl. Bio.
Code: 5529

Price: $110.00

The collection of Old Master drawings from the Genoese school in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen have lived an obscure life in the collection’s Solander boxes. Few of them have ever been published and only one has been shown to the public within living momory. Although small, the collection (and consequently this catalogue) spans the entire period of the Genoese Republic, from 1528 to 1797 when it became the Republic of Ligurua, and then part of Italy (1815). The collection embraces a wide range of master drawings by the founders of the Genoese school - the famous Luca Cambiaso and his pupils Lazaro Tavarone, Bernardo Castello and Giovanni Battista Paggi. It contains rare examples of the graceful and charming drawings by Valerio Castello, and a number of fully developed compositional studies by Domenico Piola and his thriving studio. Masters like Bartolomeo Biscaino, Domenico Fiasella, Alessandro Magnasco, Francesco Castiglione, Lorenzo de Ferrari, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti and Francesco Narice are also represented.