Travel, drawing and the imagination in Renaissance Italy: the artist, the amateur and the armchair traveller

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In their travels, artists and non-professionals ('amateurs') used drawing as a tool for observation, recollection and commemoration; for the ‘armchair traveller’ drawings acted as portals to a new world of recognizable or distant places; representations of drawings could also open up journeys of understanding. This paper examines different aspects of the autonomous drawing in the late 15th and 16th centuries, particularly drawing after the antique and the place of drawing in humanist culture in Italy.

Authors: Whistler, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Société du salon du dessin
• Host title: Dix-septièmes Rencontres internationales du Salon du dessin : Les dessins de voyages Les artistes voyageurs : formes et fonctions du dessins de voyage XVIe-XVIIe siècles
• Pages: 55-69
• Series: Rencontres internationales du Salon du dessin
• Series number: XVII
• Place of publication: Paris
• Publication date: 2025-03-01
• Acceptance date: 2024-06-11
• Event title: XVIIe édition des Rencontres Internationales du dessin "Les dessins de voyages": Les artistes voyageurs: formes et fonctions du dessin de voyage
• Event location: Paris
• Event website: https://www.salondudessin.com/fr/rencontres-internationales/
• Event start date: 2024-03-20
• Event end date: 2024-03-21
• ISBN: 9782956279891
• Language: English
• Keywords: humanist; travel; collecting; antiquarian; amateur; drawing