| Description |
xi, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 12-Aug 15, 2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Preface / George R. Goldner -- Note to the reader -- Catalogue. |
| Summary |
This handsome volume presents selections from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the last quarter century by David M. and Julie Tobey. Dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, seventy-two drawings--several previously unpublished--are featured. The diverse array of holdings consists principally of works by Italian masters but also by artists whose careers brought them south of the Alps, among them such brilliant draftsmen as Correggio, Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Salvator Rosa, Poussin, Bernini, Canaletto, Tiepolo, and their contemporaries. |
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Impressive in their variety, the drawings include figure and composition studies, landscapes, portraits, botanical drawings, motifs inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions. Among the highlights are a splendid study of the head of Julius Caesar by Andrea del Sarto, a lively sheet of sketches by Perino del Vaga, a stunningly naturalistic study of a nude boy by Ludovico Carracci, a poetic Guercino landscape, charming topographical views by Luca Carlevarijs, Canaletto, and Bernardo Bellotto, a rare composition drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and a richly pictorial allegory by Giovanni David, to name just a few of the superlative examples in this carefully formed collection. |
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The catalogue includes lengthy entries on each drawing and illuminating biographies of the artists. Every drawing in the Tobey Collection is reproduced in color and accompanied by numerous comparative illustrations. --Book Jacket. |
| Subject |
Tobey, David M. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Tobey, Julie -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing, Italian -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing -- Private collections -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Bambach, Carmen.
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Alsteens, Stijn.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Added Title |
Drawings from the Tobey collection |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Wolk-Simon, Linda. Italian journey. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)758488032 |
| ISBN |
9781588393791 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc)) |
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1588393798 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc)) |
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9780300155242 (Yale University Press (hc)) |
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0300155247 (Yale University Press (hc)) |
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