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Exposition : “The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making”, Londres, National Gallery, du 10 avril au 6 juillet 2025

Two artist brothers from Bologna in northern Italy, Annibale and Agostino Carracci, visit Rome in 1594. They are about to take on a huge commission – to decorate rooms in the great Farnese Palace. A private family residence, its owner, Odoardo Farnese newly elected cardinal aged just 20, had inherited great wealth. Having finished the cardinal’s study, in 1597 they start work on the palace’s vast gallery. How to prepare? Two huge charcoal drawings on...

Exposition : « Rework, Retouch, Care: Case Studies from the Hertziana Collection », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 4 mars-5 juin 2025

Research Exhibition curated by Francesca Borgo and Camilla Colzani. LOCATION: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena), Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma CONTACT: editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it Long after leaving the artist’s studio, drawings continue to transform. More fragile and responsive than canvas or panel, paper not only registers the passage of time but also readily reflects shifts in ownership, taste, and interest. This exhibition presents a selection of case studies from the Hertziana collection that draws attention to the...

Journées d’étude : « Mettere mano. Reworking Early Modern Drawings », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 4-7 mars 2025

Public event without registration BEGINN: 04.03.2025 ENDE: 07.03.2026 VORTRAGENDE(R): Gernsheim Study Days ORT: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo) KONTAKT: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it “… con questo, che Taddeo potesse correggere e mettere mano nei disegni e cartoni di Federigo a suo piacimento …” In the Vita of Taddeo Zuccari, Giorgio Vasari describes the reworking of drawings — in contrast to that of paintings — as a common and spontaneous practice. The 2025 Gernsheim...

Présentation d’ouvrage : Antonio Brucculeri, « Les Français et la Renaissance. Idées et représentations de l’architecture, 1760-1880 », Paris, Institut culturel italien, le mercredi 12 février 2025, à 18h30

L’Institut culturel italien de Paris est heureux d’accueillir la présentation du livre d’Antonio Brucculeri : Les Français et la Renaissance : idées et représentations de l’architecture, 1760-1880 (Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2024). L’ouvrage analyse la contribution française à la définition du concept de Renaissance. L’enquête de l’auteur porte sur les liens entre la première historiographie de l’architecture de la Renaissance et la réélaboration des fondements de la théorie architecturale au cours du XIXe siècle, tout en soulignant le...

Exposition : « Drawn to Blue: Artists’ use of blue paper », Londres, The Courtauld, 2 octobre 2024-26 janvier 2025

2 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2025  The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery  This display will present a selection of drawings on blue paper from The Courtauld’s collection, ranging from works by the Venetian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto to an Indian landscape by German-born artist Johann Zoffany. Made from fibres derived from blue rags, blue paper first appeared in Northern Italy in the 14th century. It became a popular drawing support for artists, and its use...

Appel à contribution : « Mettere mano. Reworking Early Modern Drawings », Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 4-7 mars 2025, date limite le 10 novembre 2024

“… con questo, che Taddeo potesse correggere e mettere mano nei disegni e cartoni di Federigo a suo piacimento …” In the Vita of Taddeo Zuccari, Giorgio Vasari describes the reworking of drawings — in contrast to that of paintings — as a common and spontaneous practice in the sixteenth century. In his Libro de’ disegni, Vasari himself reworked his own drawing collection into elaborate framing collages organized by artist and subject. Some of these...

Colloque : « Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing », Londres, The Courtauld Institute, 20 juin 2024

From the sixteenth century to the present, drawing the human body from life has remained a mainstay of Western institutional art practice. Despite significant shifts in the aesthetics, media, and purpose of art over the last five hundred years, life drawing endures in both the studio and the classroom. Pose, Power, Practice is a one-day symposium that seeks to reassess the state of the field on life drawing and apply new critical frameworks to this...

Exposition : « Faszination Rom. Maarten van Heemskerck zeichnet die Stadt », Berlin, Kulturforum, 26 avril-4 août 2024

The Kupferstichkabinett Berlin owns two spectacular albums with around 160 drawings by the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), executed in Rome between 1532 and 1536/37. During these years he wandered through the city, visited collections of antiquities, made pilgrimages to the holy sites, and filled his sketchbook with drawings. These include wide panoramas and city views as well as studies of ancient ruins and sculptures. In this way, he compiled an extensive stock of...

Conférence : Peter Mason, « Ulisse Aldrovandi Naturalist and Collector », Londres/en ligne, Warburg Institute, 19 avril 2024

Renaissance Lives – Ulisse Aldrovandi Naturalist and Collector Peter Mason in conversation with David Lines (Warwick) The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of coloured drawings detailing them. Many of these drawings found their way into his illustrated publications, most of which were published posthumously.
This book provides a concise yet comprehensive portrait of Aldrovandi, paying...

Exposition : « Bruegel to Rubens. Great Flemish Drawings », Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 23 mars-23 juin 2024

Showcasing over 100 exceptional Flemish drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries. From Pieter Bruegel’s remarkable print designs and landscapes and Rubens’s first sketches to heartfelt friendship albums shared between artists, this major exhibition presents drawings from many of the Flemish masters. These artworks, accompanied by paintings, prints and other objects they inspired, will be brought together for the first time. They represent some of the most exquisite drawings kept in Antwerp and Oxford collections, created by...