Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings Tapa blanda -

Ashmolean Museum, 14/02/2024 00:00:01. paperback. New. **PAPERBACK**

Paperback / softback. New. Through a selection of over 100 world-class drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book gives an insightful and comprehensive overview into how these drawn sheets were used as part of artistic practice, within or beyond the artist’s studio.

Ashmolean Museum, 2024. Paperback. New. 176 pages. 11.00x8.63x0.91 inches.

2024. 244 pages with 190 illustrations: 180 colour & 10 black & white. Paperback 28x22cms. ISBN: 9781910807590. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in collaboration with the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, Rubenshuis and Christ Church Picture Gallery. Presenting over 100 drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the three main essays each deal with one of the principal functions of drawings at the time: studies (copies and sketches), designs for other artworks (paintings, prints, tapestries, metalwork, stained glass, sculpture and architecture), and finally the independent drawings. Highlights will include a sketchbook in which a young Rubens has copied Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, intricate pen and ink drawings by Pieter Bruegel, miniatures by Joris Hoefnagel, portrait studies by Anthony van Dyck, and a rare survival of a friendship album containing numerous drawings and poems dedicated to its owner. Two recently… Leer más

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2024. Softcover, 244 pages, ENG. edition; 280 x 220 mm, NEW , 180 colored illustrations / 10 b/w. ISBN 9781910807590. Many of the drawings coming from Antwerp are registered on the Flemish Government's Masterpieces List and will not be shown again for the next five to ten years to protect them from fading Highlights will include a sketchbook in which a young Rubens has copied Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, intricate pen and ink drawings by Pieter Bruegel, meticulously drawn miniatures by Joris Hoefnagel, portrait studies by Anthony van Dyck, and a rare survival of a friendship album containing numerous drawings and poems dedicated to its owner Two recently discovered drawings by Rubens will also be included, a design for a book-illustration on optics and an anatomical study of three legs. This catalogue will accompany the Bruegel to Rubens exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford between 22 March and 23 June 2024. Through a selection of over 100… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.