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Join Dr Lucia Tantardini (University of Cambridge) when she delivers a lecture on Italian Drawings from the Robert Landolt Collection.
Drawing, both as act and art, is with good reason referred to as the foundation of art and the most intimate form of artistic creation and expression. This talk explores the unfolding of the art of drawing in Renaissance Italy through examination of Robert Landolt’s collection of old master drawings.
Jonathan den Otter, Associate Specialist, will host a virtual handling session introduced by Glen Hardwick-Bruce, Programme Director, Continuing Education London. Jonathan will talk the viewers through exciting aspects of various old master drawings which are to be included in the sale, Italian Drawings from the Robert Landolt Collection, London, 8 December 2020
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Dr Lucia Tantardini Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. She specialises in the art of the Italian Renaissance, particularly the interrelation between drawing theory and drawing practices. At Cambridge she teaches the course Drawing in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy c.1450–1600, currently the only academic course in the world entirely devoted to the art of drawing.
TADDEO ZUCCARO (SANT’ ANGELO IN VADO 1529–1566 ROME) and BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (BOLOGNA 1529–1592) Two studies of Diana with her hounds (recto); A partially draped woman holding a vessel on her head (verso) with inscription ‘del Tadeo’ (recto)