History of Drawing
Collection by Kira Patrick
History of Drawing is a textbook and reference book available free to anyone who loves drawings.
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century II
THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN NETHERLANDS Peter Paul Rubens (1577‑1640) Soon after he became a master painter in Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens spent eight years (1600-1608) in Italy, where he copied …
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century II
THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN NETHERLANDS Peter Paul Rubens (1577‑1640) Soon after he became a master painter in Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens spent eight years (1600-1608) in Italy, where he copied …
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century I
ITALY AND FRANCE ITALY Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) In the years before and after 1600, four artists, Ludovico Carracci and his cousin Annibale, Caravaggio, …
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter 3: The Sixteenth Century I
FLORENCE AND ROME Leonardo da Vinci (1452‑1519) The new possibilities for drawing that were planted by Pisanello early in the fifteenth-century in Italy blossomed at the end of the century in the a…
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century I
ITALY AND FRANCE ITALY Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) In the years before and after 1600, four artists, Ludovico Carracci and his cousin Annibale, Caravaggio, …
Chapter 3: The Sixteenth Century II
VENICE, PARMA, GERMANY VENICE Far fewer fifteenth-century drawings have been preserved from Venice and the cities of northern Italy than from Florence and central Italy—even counting the body of dr…
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century II
THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN NETHERLANDS Peter Paul Rubens (1577‑1640) Soon after he became a master painter in Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens spent eight years (1600-1608) in Italy, where he copied …
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter Two: Fifteenth Century
ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS Lost and Found Drawings In the early fifteenth century every workshop in Europe must have made drawings, but few of them were preserved. With some exceptions, artists…
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century II
THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN NETHERLANDS Peter Paul Rubens (1577‑1640) Soon after he became a master painter in Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens spent eight years (1600-1608) in Italy, where he copied …
Chapter 4: The Seventeenth Century I
ITALY AND FRANCE ITALY Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) In the years before and after 1600, four artists, Ludovico Carracci and his cousin Annibale, Caravaggio, …
Chapter One: Prologue
THE BASIC ART Sometime between the ages of eighteen and twenty‑four months, children make scribbles that, one day, suddenly became a person. For most people, drawing was their first experienc…