An Italian Journey From Correggio To Tiepolo:
16th-18th Century Old Master Drawings
Opening mid-May at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art will be an exhibition of one of the preeminent
collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Ranging
across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, it
covers all the principal centers of Italian art -- Florence, Rome,
Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, Milan -- and features
masterpieces by a distinguished roster of great draftsmen.
Impressive in its variety, the gamut of subject matter includes
figures studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by
classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.
Highlights of the collection, which will be presented to the public
for the first time, include spectacular works by Correggio,
Parmigianino, Bernini, Poussin, Guercino, Salvator Rosa, Piranesi,
Canaletto, and Tiepolo. We will enjoy a sneak preview of this show --
one of the major exhibitions of the Metropolitan's spring/summer
season -- from its curator, Linda Wolk-Simon.
LINDA WOLK-SIMON is a Curator in
the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. She recently received an award for excellence for an essay
on Raphael from the Association of Art
Museum Curators.
Opening mid-May at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art will be an exhibition of one of the preeminent
collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Ranging
across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, it
covers all the principal centers of Italian art -- Florence, Rome,
Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, Milan -- and features
masterpieces by a distinguished roster of great draftsmen.
Impressive in its variety, the gamut of subject matter includes
figures studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by
classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.