Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery
London, Courtauld Institute of Art
Chatsworth, Dukes of Devonshire Collection
London, The National Gallery
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland
London, British Museum
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
London, Victoria and Albert Museum

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and his circle - British Collections (Collection) Facsimile Edition

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The numerous drawings that are preserved in Great Britain today represent techniques and functions: from the preliminary sketches to the most complete cardboard (unique case in his work), some drawings are produced with meticulous lines and checked, while others seem jotted down in few seconds. The subjects go from nature studies to fantastic compositions, from profane allegories to religious compositions.

The greatest part of the drawings is connected with works of art, but some represent technical and scientific studies, that, generally, constitute the base for a thematic evaluation of the creative procedures of Leonardo, from “random” inventions, to the systematic repetitions of motives.

The drawings of the catalogue, 139, can be devided in around seventy of Leonardo, and others by his followers or of connected artists.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and his circle - British Collections (Collection)": I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia - Collezioni in Gran Bretagna facsimile edition, published by Giunti Editore, 2010

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I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia - Collezioni in Gran Bretagna

Florence: Giunti Editore, 2010

  • Commentary (Italian) by Kemp, Martin; Barone, Juliana; Whistler, Catherine; Griffiths, Antony; Kornmeier, Uta
  • Limited Edition: 998 copies
  • Collection: a selection of documents associated by a common thread and collected by the publisher in a single edition.

Leather-covered box (size 335 x 488 mm) with gold tooling, containing 112 plates with facsimile reproductions of the drawings, recto and verso, and a 240-page text printed on handmade paper and bound in Fabriano paper

The facsimiles are accompanied by a volume of studies signed by Martin Kemp and Juliana Barone, two among the most authoritative researchers of Leonardo of the world, and provided with over one hundred images of comparison, while Catherine Whistler of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and Antony Griffiths of the British Museum in London inform us on the collections of the respective museums. The bibliography, by Uta Kornmeier, completes the catalogue.

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