Federico Barocci: i disegni nella Galleria Nazionale delle Marche = the drawings of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

Abstract

Four hundred years after the painter's death, Federico Barocci is evoked by means of a survey of the collection of his drawings in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in the Palazzo ducale di Urbino, examined comprehensively for the first time in this book. The research carried out by Luciano Arcangeli - leading expert in 16th- and 17th-century painting, with regard to the Marches and to this artist in particular - explores Barocci's role in Italian painting, his relations with his patrons as well as comparing his drawings and paintings to explain how his outstanding artistic production was based on a succession of preparatory stages prior to the execution of the final work: figure drawings, compositional studies, models for light, colour and so on. The book features a timeline with biographical information about the artist and colour illustrations of the paintings and drawings, which were the subject of a recent photographic campaign.