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  • A NOT-FOR-PROFIT
    PLATFORM PROMOTING
    OLD MASTERS AND
    ANTIQUITIES TO A 21ST
    CENTURY AUDIENCE.
  • HERALDING A NEW
    CONCEPT IN ARTS
    ENGAGEMENT, INSPIRING
    AND ENTERTAINING.
  • MASTER CLASSES,
    CURATED VISITS, FILMS,
    AND RESEARCH-LED
    PUBLICATIONS
    PROMOTING EXCELLENCE.

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 12

Colnaghi Foundation are delighted to announce the publication of our recent journal, Colnaghi Studies Journal 12.


Our 12th edition is the first of two special numbers featuring articles on the art market during the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The essays on the present volume arose from an international conference hosted by Colnaghi in November 2022 and explore the careers of those dealers and collectors who have been overlooked in the traditional histories while also shining a beam of scholarship on some less known aspects of a complex yet fascinating period in the history of the art market.


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