Description
Book SynopsisThe Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to have a collection of Italian drawings that encompasses a broad sweep of Italy's art history, from the Renaissance to Futurism to the contemporary. With this publication, 80 of these drawings are provided with insightful commentary, scholarly analysis, and biographies of the artists.
Trade Review“Rarely does one find a combination of the history of collecting and the practice of connoisseurship presented as seamlessly and cogently as in this book.”
—Giancarlo Fiorenza University of Toronto Quarterly
“While it would have been informative to have an explanation for the particular selection of drawings included, this is nonetheless a very satisfying publication, both to read and to handle. The heavy paper and fine color reproduction seem to mimic the experience of holding the drawings themselves.”
—Joseph F. Patrouch Sixteenth Century Journal
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
Anne d’Harnoncourt and Innis Howe Shoemaker
Note to the Reader
Collecting Italian Drawings at Philadelphia:Two Nineteenth-Century Amateurs and a Twentieth-Century Scholar
Ann Percy
With research assistance by James Hargrove
Catalogue
Mimi Cazort
List of Drawings Illustrated in “Collecting Italian Drawings at Philadelphia”
Bibliography
Index of Artists
Acknowledgments
