New Release: The Farnese Drawings Collection
January 8 2025
Picture: Editori Paparo srl
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news that a new catalogue of The Farnese Drawings Collection will be published this month. The publication is the work of the Italian drawings scholar and expert Claire Van Cleave.
According to the blurb taken from the website linked above:
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The book, curated by the expert on Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Claire Van Cleave, will trace the history of the collection of drawings once owned by the Farnese family from its origins in Rome to the present day. In its heyday, the collection included over 600 works on paper by Michelangelo, Raphael, Parmigianino, Giulio Clovio, Sofonisba Anguissola, Leonardo da Vinci, Annibale Carracci, Albrecht Dürer, and many other Italian artists of the sixteenth century.
The collection passed by descent from Elisabetta Farnese to her son Carlo di Borbone in Naples and later formed the basis of the collections now housed in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
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