The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich recently started a conservation and research project of its large collection of Van de Velde drawings. The objective is to get an insight in the use of techniques and materials of maritime draftsmanship in the 17th century. In total 1.400 drawings by Willem van de Velde the Elder and the Younger will be scrutinized in the following two years.
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A great new initiative in making master drawings accessible on the web is the Progetto Corsini, an interesting operation lead by Giulia Fusconi and Angiola Canevari. In this project, sheets from the Tommaso Corsini collection are being photographed and edited. This happens more often, but the Progetto Corsini has a different purpose. The objective of the program is to reconstruct the original configuration of the volumes in which the drawings were kept until 1895.
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A true master of the Italian ‘Cinquecento’, Giulio Pippi better known as Giulio Romano (1492/1499-1546), was the subject of an exhibition in the Louvre. Around fifty drawings illustrated the artist’s thirty year career as a painter. Starting as a pupil of Raphael around 1516, Giulio worked in the style of the great master and his workshop and soon turned out to be his favorite follower.
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Unfortunate but true. The exhibition Raphael Unraveled in Teylers Museum Haarlem came to an end. It is clear that it can be considered a great success, with..
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