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This collection, never before published in the United States, presents art from the early fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. Selected with great care and impeccable taste by a highly respected artist and teacher, these drawings are the finest efforts of great masters of Western art, a rich and glowing collection that will be treasured by every art lover.
The artists whose work is represented include world-famous greats of the Italian Renaissance, Flemish masters, members of the Dutch and French schools, and British artists. In addition to the expected, well-known drawings by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Brueghel, Rubens, Fragonard, Dürer, Raphael, and others of their standing, there are scores of brilliant efforts by lesser known geniuses: Francesco Francia, Mabuse, Huber, Breu, Urs Graf, van Goyen, Wouwerman, Antoine Pesne, Natoire, Basaiti, and many others. And instead of only pen or pencil drawings, the collection includes a wide variety of techniques: chalk, bistre, sepia, watercolor, crayon, charcoal, silverpoint, and pastel.
But regardless of the medium used, each of the drawings is superbly reproduced. Lines are clear and sharp and shaded areas are rich in contrasts. As often as possible, the drawings are presented in full size, so that they are as close to the originals as they can be. Arranged chronologically by artist, the 150 plates are all described, the artist noted and his dates given and the technique used in each case stated in a detailed list of the plates.
The artists whose work is represented include world-famous greats of the Italian Renaissance, Flemish masters, members of the Dutch and French schools, and British artists. In addition to the expected, well-known drawings by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Brueghel, Rubens, Fragonard, Dürer, Raphael, and others of their standing, there are scores of brilliant efforts by lesser known geniuses: Francesco Francia, Mabuse, Huber, Breu, Urs Graf, van Goyen, Wouwerman, Antoine Pesne, Natoire, Basaiti, and many others. And instead of only pen or pencil drawings, the collection includes a wide variety of techniques: chalk, bistre, sepia, watercolor, crayon, charcoal, silverpoint, and pastel.
But regardless of the medium used, each of the drawings is superbly reproduced. Lines are clear and sharp and shaded areas are rich in contrasts. As often as possible, the drawings are presented in full size, so that they are as close to the originals as they can be. Arranged chronologically by artist, the 150 plates are all described, the artist noted and his dates given and the technique used in each case stated in a detailed list of the plates.
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150 Masterpieces of Drawing - Anthony Toney
15O
Masterpieces of Drawing
Selected by Anthony Toney
Dover Publications, Inc., New York
Copyright © 1963 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
150 Masterpieces of Drawing is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1963.
Standard Book Number: 486-21032-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63–5656
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
LIST OF PLATES
PLATE
1 V
ITTORE
P
ISANO
, called P
ISANELLO
(Italian, ca. 1390–1451).
× 8¼.*
2 P
ETRUS
C
HRISTUS
(Flemish, ca. 1420–1475).
× 11.
3 Unknown Flemish master of the 15th century.
× 10½.
4 M
ASTER OF THE
H
AUSBUCH
(German, fl. ca. 1475).
.
5 P
IETRO
P
ERUGINO
(Italian, 1446–1523).
Lamentation over Christ, with Saints Mary, Jerome, and John the Baptist. Formerly attributed to Piero della Francesca, then to Timoteo Viti; credited to Perugino by O. Fischel. Pen drawing in bistre on paper with light yellow tint. 7¾ × 8¾.
6 D
OMENICO
G
HIRLANDAIO
(Italian, 1449–1494).
Zacharias sacrificing in the temple, with members of the Tornabuoni and Tornaquinci families of Florence. First sketch for the fresco in the choir of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Pen drawing in bistre with wash. 14¾ × 10¼.
7 F
RANCESCO
F
RANCIA
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