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Learning to draw in Venice: the role of drawing manuals
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A group of drawing manuals that were published in Venice in the early 1600s have taken on a high profile in the modern literature, being viewed as evidence of an impetus to reform Venetian disegno (drawing or design) by introducing Bolognese-inspired teaching methods. I argue that the concept of disegno in its tactile and abstract forms, as a practice and as an admirable element in art, was strongly rooted in 16th-century Venetian artistic culture. These manuals do not reflect a crisis in V...
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- Publication status:
- In press
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Rethinking Renaissance Drawings
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9780773546363
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:7318
- Deposit date:
- 2013-09-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Whistler, C
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Essay in a festschrift with internationally-based contributors, in press by McGill Queen's University Press, edited by Prof Una Roman D'Elia, 'Rethinking Renaissance Drawings: Essays in Honour of David McTavish'.
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