Drawing the Italian Renaissance : Curator’s Introduction
Useful online lecture from ARTscapades introducing an exhibition on drawing in the Italian Renaissance at the King’s Gallery.
Martin Clayton, from the Royal Collection Trust, guided us through the themes of the show highlighting key works.
He started with an aspect which isn’t in the show, which I have since been to, talking about how the drawings entered the collection from Charles II acquiring the collection of the Earl of Arundel to George III’s purchase of the Joseph Smith library.
Clayton talked about the different types of drawings and how they were used and I was particularly interested in the section on drawing for the applied arts as I had not expected to see this reflected in the show.
The talk gave me a good grounding for going to the exhibition which was extensive to the point of being overwhelming.
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