Italian masters drawings on view at Cantor Arts Center

PanARMENIAN.Net - Nearly 100 masterworks from the 15th through the 20th centuries - accompanied by new research and fresh insights - are on view at the Cantor Arts Center - in 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, Patch reports.

The exhibition, which is organized thematically, includes a markedly broad spectrum of works, ranging from the early Renaissance to early Modernism. As such it is a panoramic depiction of the pivotal role played by drawing, or “disegno,” in the Italian design process. In that process, drawing encompasses both the mental formulation and the physical act of creation and focuses on the human figure.

This major traveling exhibition features rarely seen highlights by such artists as Michelangelo, Barocci, Bernini, Carpaccio, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Modigliani, Parmigianino, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Tintoretto and Veronese. Many of the drawings have benefited from new discoveries concerning attribution, iconography, date, function and provenance.

Among the noteworthy findings is the discovery, first made in the 1990s, of an architectural sketch by Michelangelo on the reverse side of a study of heads that had been tentatively associated with the artist. The ground plan for an unrealized chapel was revealed through infrared reflectography.