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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 15

We are delighted to announce the October 2024 volume of Colnaghi Studies Journal, NO. 15.

The fifteenth volume features articles examining works by Francesco Salviati, Alessandro
Vaiani, and Anthony van Dyck. Further articles consider the Marian cycle associated with the
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, the oeuvre of the “Bateman Master”, a
follower of Canaletto, and the Conway photographic collection at the University of Melbourne.
This edition also includes reviews of the exhibition “Careers by Design: Hendrik Goltzius &
Peter Paul Rubens” at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and Salvatore Settis’s 2024 book
Registro delle Assenze: Profili e Paesaggi.

We hope you enjoy reading this latest volume!

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