Title

European prints & drawings 1500-1900.

Venues

Art Gallery Of New South Wales. (28 August 2014 – 2 November 2014)

Date

(2014)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Prints, Drawings

Curator

Raisiss, Peter.

Web address

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/eur…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Mantegna, Rembrandt, Watteau, Gainsborough, Goya, Constable, Blake, Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Cézanne, Degas, Klimt…

This is a rare chance to see works on paper by some of Europe’s greatest artists, which are usually kept in storage due to their sensitivity to light.

'European prints and drawings 1500-1900' presents 150 outstanding works from the Art Gallery of NSW collection. On display for the first time is the recent acquisition 'Melencolia' I by Albrecht Dürer, marking the 500th anniversary of this 1514 engraving – one of the most enigmatic images in Western art.

Charting some four centuries since the Renaissance, these works show the development of various graphic techniques and reveal the story of the graphic arts in Europe. The big subjects of European art and culture, and changing attitudes towards religion and faith, science and philosophy, power and politics, the individual and society, are all captured on paper.

The exhibition coincides with the publication of the first book on the Gallery’s European prints and drawings collection, opening a fascinating window into tradition and innovation in the graphic arts in Europe as well as the Gallery’s own history of collecting.

[AGNSW media, 2014].

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05 Aug 2024