The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It is one of the most important collections of drawings by this artist, which also includes drawings after his own by contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practiced by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman.

Author: Paul Joannides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/21/2007
Pages: 508
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.19lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.80w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9780521551335

About the Author
Joannides, Paul: - Paul Joannides, Reader in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, has published widely on the painting, sculpture, architecture, and above all, the drawings of the Italian Renaissance. He has also written on topics in French painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.