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Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns

Sell, Stacey
Chapman, Hugo
Schenck, Kimberly

Hardcover

Art HistoryDrawing InstructionGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 0691166129
ISBN13: 9780691166124
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 26 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 3.50
Height: 1.40 Width: 7.80 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

A beautiful new history of an evocative and enduring drawing technique

From the Middle Ages to the present, master draftsmen have used the technique of metalpoint to create some of the most beautiful and technically accomplished drawings in the history of art. Drawing in Silver and Gold examines the history of this evocative medium, in which a metal stylus is used on a specially prepared surface to create lines of astonishing delicacy.

This beautifully illustrated book examines the practice of metalpoint over six centuries, in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Dürer, and Rembrandt to Otto Dix and Jasper Johns. A team of authors--curators, conservators, scientists--address variations in technique across time and between different schools, incorporating new scientific analysis, revealing patterns of use, and providing a rare demonstration of the medium's range and versatility. They reappraise famous metalpoints of the Renaissance and shed new light on infrequently studied periods, such as the seventeenth century and the Victorian silverpoint revival.

A new examination of an exquisite but not thoroughly understood medium, Drawing in Silver and Gold offers fresh interpretations of a practice central to the history of drawing and will serve as the most authoritative reference on metalpoints for years to come.

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