Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery

Résumé du livre

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Mantegna to 'Matisse: Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery'. The drawings represent a survey of the extraordinary of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish, British and French artists between the late Middle Ages and the early twentieth century. The catalogue features works executed in a range of styles and for a variety of purposes, including preliminary sketches, practice studies, aide-mémoires, designs for other artworks and finished pictures meant to be appreciated as independent works of art. Among the artists represented in the catalogue are Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Joseph Mallord, William Turner, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.