Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Accompanying the sixth and most

Accompanying the sixth and most significant exhibition of the Thaw Collection at the Morgan

Published to accompany a major exhibition

This generously illustrated publication includes a series of essays by leading scholars devoted to pivotal moments in the history of drawing

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support "the sublimity of my ideas

and scholar Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Accompanying the sixth and mostGuercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and to the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural