Italian Renaissance Drawings from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

This stunning catalogue of 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings from Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen will showcase highlights from this outstanding but still
relatively little-known part of the collection. It includes internationally significant
sheets by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Pontormo, Pisanello, Giorgione
and Tintoretto, as well as an important group of early Venetian drawings and a large
number of workshop studies by Fra Bartolommeo.
Published to accompany exhibitions at the Fondation Custodia, Paris, and The Morgan
Library & Museum, New York, this volume will mark the conclusion of a five-year
cataloguing project at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, funded by the
Getty Foundation. During the project all the Italian drawings were fully researched and
catalogued, many for the first time. Several of these drawings have not been published
in the last 70 years, if at all.
The catalogue is a scholarly touchstone for this part of the collection. It includes two
essays and 111 catalogue entries based on the online catalogue texts prepared by several
Italian drawings specialists. They include the most well-known drawings in Rotterdam
as well as drawings that have never been published or exhibited before, such as newly
attributed sheets by Pontormo, Federico Zuccaro and Aurelio Lomi.