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The Practice of Drawing

The art of drawing has existed for as long as humanity itself. Here we focus on the practice of drawing in the Western tradition. We ask why artists draw, what they draw, and how they draw, looking at the development of artistic drawing from the early Renaissance to modern times. We look at some of the most extraordinary drawings from collections around the world which are seldom on public display because of their fragile nature. Click here to explore our microsite

The Grand Tour in Venice

The Grand Tour was a rite of passage, a tour round Europe taken traditionally by aristocratic young men as a means of rounding off their education before settling down to the more serious business of life. Its heyday was the eighteenth century and its goal was Italy, where many travellers acquired Old Master paintings and classical sculpture to adorn their town or country houses.

The present “Grand Tour Diaries” focus on Venice and the descriptions of visitors and residents over a period of three hundred years.
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Colnaghi Studies Journal 14

We are delighted to announce the March 2024 volume of Colnaghi Studies Journal.

Our fourteenth volume features articles on the evolution of the figure of St. Michael in the work of Gerard David and his workshop, and on the appearance of this saint in the late ecclesiastical work of Pietro Antonio Novelli. This edition also includes essays on Michelangelo’s graphic contributions to Sebastiano del Piombo’s Raising of Lazarus, the discovery of a Ghirlandaio workshop Madonna in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, and Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s collecting and framing programme at Stourhead. Volume 14 also includes a review of the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition Rubens & Women.
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