Drawing in Silver and Gold : Leonardo to Jasper Johns

Sell, Stacey/ Chapman, Hugo

Princeton University Press（2015/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780691166124
• DDC分類 741.25

Full Description

From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to create lines of astonishing delicacy. This beautifully illustrated book examines the practice of metalpoint over six centuries, in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Durer, and Rembrandt to Otto Dix and Jasper Johns. A team of authors--curators, conservators, scientists--address variations in technique across time and between different schools, incorporating new scientific analysis, revealing patterns of use, and providing a rare demonstration of the medium's range and versatility. They reappraise famous metalpoints of the Renaissance and shed new light on infrequently studied periods, such as the seventeenth century and the Victorian silverpoint revival.
A new examination of an exquisite but not thoroughly understood medium, Drawing in Silver and Gold offers fresh interpretations of a practice central to the history of drawing and will serve as the most authoritative reference on metalpoints for years to come. Exhibition schedule: * National Gallery of Art - http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/leonardo-to-jasper-johns.html, May 3-July 26, 2015* The British Museum, September 10-December 6, 2015

Contents

Directors' Foreword, Earl A. Powell III and Nei l MacGregor xi Lenders to the Exhibition xiii Introduction, Stacey Sell 1 Drawings Under Scrutiny: The Materials and Techniques of Metalpoint, Kimberly Schenck 9 Masters of Silverpoint in the Netherlandish Renaissance, John Oliver Hand 25 Silverpoint Drawings by German and Swiss Renaissance Artists, Giulia Bartrum 63 The Rise and Decline of Metalpoint Drawing in Renaissance Italy, Hugo Chapman 101 Metalpoint Drawings in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, An Van Camp 145 The Silverpoint Revival in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Stacey Sell 189 Modern and Contemporary Drawing in Metalpoint, Bruce Weber 225 The Technical Examination of Metalpoint Drawings, Joanna Russe ll, Judith Rayner, and Jenny Bescoby 261 Exhibition Checklist 275 Selected Bibliography 291 Acknowledgments 303 Index 307 Photography Credits 313