Drawings – Introductory Reading – Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1475 – 1525

Politics, Art and Culture in the Italian Renaissance: Venice and Florence, c. 1475 - 1525

PRESCRIBED WORKS OF ART 2023/24

DRAWINGS: INTRODUCTORY READING
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Short overview on drawing in Renaissance Italy.

Ames-Lewis, Francis and Joanne Wright. Drawing in the Italian Renaissance Workshop. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983 (Not in Syllabus Bibliography)

A general introduction to Renaissance drawings, and an overview of drawing practice.

Chapman, Hugo and Marzia Faietti, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings (London: British Museum, 2010) – introduction (4.2)

A brief comparison between Venetian and Florentine drawing practice.

Weston-Lewis, Aidan. “Drawing in Renaissance Venice.” In The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, edited by Peter Humfrey, Timothy Clifford, Aidan Weston-Lewis, and Michael Bury, 207 – 209. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2004. (9.3, in ref. to Titian)

An introductory analysis of drawing in Venice, with a focus on the 16th century (up to page 18).

Whistler, Catherine. Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2015 (Not in Syllabus Bibliography)

Focuses on the links between drawings and paintings.

Bambach, Carmen C. Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300 – 1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (4.2)