Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections

Wolk-Simon, Linda

Griswold, William M.

Arts & Photography

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece

The Renaissance master Raphael (1483–1520) painted the Colonna altarpiece circa 1504–05 for a convent in Perugia. It was subsequently owned by Queen Christina of Sweden, the duc d’Orlèans of France, and the Colonna family in Rome. In 1901, J. Pierpont Morgan acquired the altarpiece, which was still in a private collection, paying the phenomenal sum of two million francs. Morgan’s son bequeathed the painting to the Metropolitan Museum in 1916, and it remains one of the great treasures of the collection. This catalogue explores the altarpiece’s commission in the context of Raphael’s career. Its fascinating history, new technical findings, and a reconstruction of the original altarpiece with its long-separated predella panels are featured. Raphael’s preparatory drawings and selected works by such mentors as Perugino, Pinturicchio, and Fra Bartolommeo are illustrated and supplement this intriguing history, which unfolded over the course of four centuries.

This handsome book presents highlights from one of America’s preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and David Tobey. Ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th century, some 70 drawings—many previously unpublished—are featured, including works by brilliant draftsmen such as Correggio, Parmigianino, Giulio Romano, Bernini, Poussin, Guercino, Ribera, Canaletto, and Tiepolo. Impressive in their variety of subjects, the drawings include figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions. All the works are illustrated in color and accompanied by numerous comparative illustrations; brief biographies of each artist are also included.

An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Bambach, Carmen C.

History & Criticism

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition―dating from the early Renaissance―of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinary objects or exchanging them as gifts. This important volume is the first to examine the entire range of works to which Renaissance rituals of love and marriage gave rise and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. Some 140 works of art, dating from about 1400 to 1600, are discussed by a distinguished group of scholars and are reproduced in full color.
 Marriage and childbirth gifts are the point of departure. These range from maiolica, glassware, and jewelry to birth trays, musical instruments, and nuptial portraits. Bonds of love of another sort were represented in erotic drawings and prints. From these precedents, an increasingly inventive approach to subjects of love and marriage culminated in paintings by some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, including Giulio Romano, Lorenzo Lotto, and Titian. [This book was originally published in 2008 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie

Syson, Luke

Turner, James Grantham

Bayer, Andrea

Edwards, Nancy

Thornton, Dora

Brown, Beverly Louise

Fahy, Everett

Krohn, Deborah L.

This volume explores 124 works from the Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and more than twenty private collections in New York.

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Griswold, William

Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Florida Samuel P Harn

An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection: Correggio to Tiepolo

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Wolk-Simon, Linda. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Wolk-Simon, Linda