Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This stunning catalogue of 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings from MuseumBoijmans Van Beuningen will showcase highlights from this outstanding but stillrelatively little-known part of the collection. It includes internationally significantsheets by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Pontormo, Pisanello, Giorgioneand Tintoretto, as well as an important group of early Venetian drawings and a largenumber of workshop studies by Fra Bartolommeo.Published to accompany exhibitions at the Fondation Custodia, Paris, and The MorganLibrary & Museum, New York, this volume will mark the conclusion of a five-yearcataloguing project at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, funded by theGetty Foundation. During the project all the Italian drawings were fully researched andcatalogued, many for the first time. Several of these drawings have not been publishedin the last 70 years, if at all.The catalogue is a scholarly touchstone for this part of the collection. It includes twoessays and 111 catalogue entries based on the online catalogue texts prepared by severalItalian drawings specialists. They include the most well-known drawings in Rotterdamas well as drawings that have never been published or exhibited before, such as newlyattributed sheets by Pontormo, Federico Zuccaro and Aurelio Lomi.