A demand for drawings: five centuries of collectors and collecting drawings

Abstract

From the foreword by Morgan Library director Colin B. Bailey: "Drawings have long been objects that bring like-minded people together: to discuss, exchange, buy, sell, or simply to share in their appreciation. It is no surprise, then, that this volume of essays devoted to the collecting of drawings emerges from the efforts of the Morgan's Drawing Institute, which aims to create a community of scholars, students, and art lovers working to advance knowledge in the field."

Contents

The Tradition of Collecting Drawings in Northern Renaissance Italy before Vasari / Evelyn Karet -- Vasari's Libro and the Drawings Collection of Niccolò Gaddi : The Frames / Andrew Morrogh -- Artist Collectors : Rembrandt and His Time / Michiel Plomp -- From the Cabinet to the Studio : Peter Lely and Drawing Collecting in Seventeenth-Century England / Diana Dethloff -- Pierre-Jean Mariette's Vasari : The Collector as Historian / Kristel Smentek -- Hidden Prints in Pierre-Jean Mariette's Collection of Drawings / Giada Damen -- "I still spent much more than I had planned" : Buying Drawings at Jean de Jullienne's 1767 Sale / Jennifer Tonkovich -- Janos Scholz and His Era : Forming a Study Collection in the Twentieth Century / John Marciari.