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Drawing in silver and gold : Leonardo to Jasper Johns

Title
Drawing in silver and gold : Leonardo to Jasper Johns / Stacey Sell, Hugo Chapman ; with Kimberly Schenck, John Oliver Hand, Giulia Bartrum, An Van Camp, Bruce Weber, Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner, Jenny Bescoby.
Publication
  • Washington [DC] : National Gallery of Art ; London : The British Museum ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Sell, Stacey
  • Chapman, Hugo
  • National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.
  • British Museum, host institution.
Description
313 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see around 100 exceptional drawings created using the exquisite metalpoint technique. It features works by some of the greatest artists working from the late 14th century to the present including Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Elder, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Otto Dix, Jasper Johns and Bruce Nauman. Works drawn from the British Museum's superb collection of metalpoint drawings sit alongside major loans from European and American museums as well as private collections, including four sheets by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection.--British Museum website.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, May 3-July 26, 2015 and the British Museum, September 10-December 6, 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
Contents
Drawings under scrutiny : the materials and techniques of metalpoint / Kimberly Schenck -- Masters of silverpoint in the Netherlandish Renaissance / John Oliver Hand -- Silverpoint drawings by German and Swiss Renaissance artists / Giulia Bartrum -- The rise and decline of metalpoint drawing in Renaissance Italy / Hugo Chapman -- Metalpoint drawings in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / An Van Camp -- The silverpoint revival in nineteenth-century Britain / Stacey Sell -- Modern and contemporary drawing in metalpoint / Bruce Weber -- The technical examination of metalpoint drawings / Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner, and Jenny Bescoby.
Call Number
JQF 16-482
ISBN
  • 9780691166124
  • 0691166129
LCCN
  • 2015001175
  • 40025046296
OCLC
902854168
Title
Drawing in silver and gold : Leonardo to Jasper Johns / Stacey Sell, Hugo Chapman ; with Kimberly Schenck, John Oliver Hand, Giulia Bartrum, An Van Camp, Bruce Weber, Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner, Jenny Bescoby.
Publisher
Washington [DC] : National Gallery of Art ; London : The British Museum ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
Added Author
Sell, Stacey, author.
Chapman, Hugo, author.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution.
British Museum, host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
40025046296
Research Call Number
JQF 16-482
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