Drawing in early Renaissance Italy

By Francis Ames-Lewis and Francis Lewis Ames

Book Overview

During the fifteenth century drawing developed from a subsidiary role in the production of finished paintings to an art form in its own right. In this beautiful book, Francis Ames-Lewis examines the works of the major draughtsmen of the century -- Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio, Carpaccio, and Leonardo -- in order to discuss the new types of drawing that evolved.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300025513
• ISBN13: 9780300025514
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.