The Drawings of Michelangelo and his Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

The fullest catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Paul Joannides (Author)

9780521551335, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 May 2007

508 pages
28.5 x 22.5 x 3.4 cm, 1.882 kg

"Joannides offers an elegant, detailed, and throughly researched catalogue of these works, one that scrupulously takes into account previous such efforts, adding to them...while paving new ground in the discussion of copies of lost drawings...The volume is extremely manageable and clearly organized and written...An important contribution to Michelangelo scholarship that illuminates a key collection of sketches."
Duke Pesta, Renaissance Quarterly

This volume comprises the fullest and most detailed catalogue of the drawings by and after Michelangelo in the Ashmolean Museum. It is one of the most important collections of drawings by this artist, which also includes drawings after his own by contemporaries that shed light on lost works as well as the artist's reputation and influence during the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a history of Michelangelo's drawings generally and also surveys the various types of drawing practised by Michelangelo and an account of his development as a draughtsman. Most of the drawings in the Ashmolean Museum came from the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and this book contains a detailed appendix that traces the histories of all of the drawings by or after Michelangelo that Lawrence owned, both before he acquired them and after they were dispersed.

Introductory essay: the dispersal and formation of Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of drawings by Michelangelo
Michelangelo's drawings
Appendix 1. Drawings by or attributed to Michelangelo in William Young Ottley's sales
Appendix 2. The Lawrence collection of drawings by and after Michelangelo.

Subject Areas: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 [ACN]