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Item Number: 135995
Title: Drawn From The Antique: Artists & The Classical Ideal
Author: Aymonino, Adriano ; Anne Varick Lauder (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780957339897
Description: London: Sir John Soane's Museum, 2015. 28cm., pbk., 256pp. illus (Rubens, Goltzius, Sweerts et al), most in color. Exhibition catalogue (previously at Teylers Museum, Haarlem). Summary: This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue examine one of the most important educational tools and sources of inspiration for Western artists for over five hundred years: drawing after the Antique. From the Renaissance to the 19th century, classical statues offered young artists idealised models from which they could learn to represent the volumes, poses and expressions of the human figure and which, simultaneously, provided perfected examples of anatomy and proportion. For established artists, antique statues and reliefs presented an immense repertory of forms that they could use as inspiration for their own creations. Through a selection of thirty-nine drawings, prints and paintings, covering more than four hundred years and by artists as different as Baccio Bandinelli, Federico Zuccaro, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Michael Sweerts, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Henry Fuseli and Joseph Mallord William Turner, this catalogue provides the first overview of a phenomenon crucial for the understanding and appreciation of European art.
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