The Robert Lehman Collection

by Forlani Tempesti, Anna

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Title Statements

Full title :The Robert Lehman Collection. / Anna Forlani Tempesti.

Summary

Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented--figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1991.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1991.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 388 pages) : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0870996061, 9780870996061, 0691040931, 9780691040936
oclc:on1077825313
LC Classification:NC255
Dewey Decimal:741.945/074/7471

Subjects

Art -- Private collections Catalogs Dessin -- Catalogues -- 15e siècle -- I… Dessin -- Catalogues -- 16e siècle -- I… Dessin -- Catalogues -- 17e siècle -- I… Dessin -- Catalogues -- New York (État) Dessin italien -- Catalogues Drawing Drawing -- Catalogs. -- 15th century --… Drawing -- Catalogs. -- 16th century --… Drawing -- Catalogs. -- 17th century --… Drawing -- Catalogs. -- New York (State) Drawing, Italian Drawing, Italian -- Catalogs Italy Lehman, Robert Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N… New York (State) -- New York