With two lare scale exhibitions in Europe, one in Teylers Museum Haarlem and one in the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, together with the extraordinary..
Read MoreWednesday the 5th of December 2012 will surely be remembered by art lovers for quite some time. Not often was there such excitement in salerooms as in the Sotheby´s sale where one of the finest drawings by Raphael was to be sold. The former ‘Chatsworth drawing’ is of exceptional quality and speaks for itself. Raphael made the study of the apostle’s head for his Transfiguration, his last great commission.
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`…drawing was the father of painting, architecture and sculpture`. The Florentines gave great importance to the idea of form, compostion and expression in their artistic designs.
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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.
Read MoreA 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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