Containing individual masterpieces by Botticelli, da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian, the extensive collection of Italian drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum ranges from the work of Pisanello in the early fifteenth century to Sandro Chia in the twentieth. This catalog provides access to the eclectic collection in its entirety, featuring over 800 entries and 1400 color illustrations. Spanish masterpieces by Ribera and Goya are also included. The collection was largely acquired in the twentieth century, mainly by the gift and benefaction of private individuals, and the introduction details the historical development of the collection. Special features include a sketch-book drawn in and around Paris in 1640 by Stefano della Bella and eighteenth-century Venetian drawings by the Tiepolo family. Later sketch-books of Italian costumes and an album of views in and around Naples at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1822 bear witness to the development of tourism in Italy.

Italian Drawings at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Museum Publications)

Arts & Photography

Scrase, David

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Cambridge University Press

This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It concludes with several contemporary examples of flower drawings to show that the tradition continues. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the art-form.

Flower Drawings (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks)

<p>This Handbook illustrates a selection of drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The book is arranged chronologically and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present day. Beginning with illustrations from the borders and backgrounds of illuminated manuscripts, the selection traces the form through attempts at accurate delineation of form during the Renaissance to the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It concludes with several contemporary examples of flower drawings to show that the tradition continues. The illustrations bring out the stunning detail and colour characteristic of the art-form.</p>

History & Criticism

A Touch of the Divine

Museum

<p>This book contains the entire collection of 582 aphorisms which the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) published in a number of expanded editions of Aphorismen starting in 1880. While this author also wrote poems, plays, novels, and novellas, she is known today particularly for her insightful aphorisms. Stating that "An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought," she presents intellectually stimulating and socially engaging short texts dealing with various aspects of human nature, morality, ethics, knowledge, education, politics, youth, age, friendship, love, marriage, sexual politics, and both liberal and female emancipation.</p>

Aphorisms (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT TRANSLATION SERIES)

Literature & Fiction

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie Von

United States

Ariadne Pr

The first detailed treatment of a talented poet and novelist whose works have been unjustly neglected for three decades. Lehmann's personal development is examined in detail, and Scrase has made extensive use of personal interviews, diaries, and contemporary photographs.

Wilhelm Lehmann: A Critical Biography : The Years of Trial, 1880-1918 (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, & Culture)

Biographies & Memoirs

Camden House

Maynard Keynes. Collector of Pictures, Books and Manuscripts. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE 5 JUILY 29 AUGUST 1983

The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

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