The Value of Drawing in Renaissance Italy
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Tuesday 8 October 2024
(6pm) - Online Zoom Event, link details will be emailed to attendees on the morning of the event
- Lecturer: Grant Lewis
Much was written about drawing in sixteenth-century Italy. From Vasari to Zuccari, theorists regularly expounded drawings as the purest manifestation of an artist’s creativity, and this view is still held today. But did these appraisals influence how artists made drawings, even drawings that were made as functional means to an end? Charting the emergence of new, often excitingly sophisticated uses of drawing by Leonardo, Michelangelo and others, this question will be explored in the works of several Italian artists – including those who also wrote about drawing.
This online lecture will be recorded and available to ticketholders for two weeks after the event.
Lecturer
Grant Lewis is Milein Cosman Curator for Late Michelangelo at The British Museum. He has a MPhil (Cantab.), a MA (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) and is doing his PhD at The Courtauld on the patronage of the Loredan family in Venice and the terraferma in the early sixteenth century. He is a Guest Lecturer at Cambridge University and The Courtauld. He was Getty Curatorial Fellow, Old Master Drawings, British Museum 2018-21 and worked in Prints and Drawings, British Library 2015- 18. Appointed as Milein Cosman Curator in 2022.
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