Italian Drawings from Renowned Collection at the National Gallery of Art

artwork: Bernardino Poccetti - The Death of the Blessed Buonagiunta Manetti, c. 1612 - Pen & brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, squared for transfer in red chalk on light brown paper, 249 x 402 mm (arched top). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.


WASHINGTON, DC.- Splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, spanning the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement, are showcased at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the Gallery’s West Building from May 8 to November 27, 2011, Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525–1835 includes 65 stunning Italian compositions and study sheets by the most important artists of the period, from Giulio Romano and Pellegrino Tibaldi to Canaletto, all three members of the Tiepolo family, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

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