Title

A Beautiful Line: Italian prints of the Renaissance & Baroque.

Venues

Art Gallery Of South Australia. (20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010)

Date

(2010)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (SA). Prints.

Curator

Zagala, Maria

Documentation

Catalogue

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

In a rare opportunity, some of the masterpieces of Italian printmaking go on display in the exhibition A Beautiful Line. The exhibition comprises around 150 Italian prints from the mid fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries drawn from the rich collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Highlights include Andrea Mantegna’s Renaissance masterpiece The Entombment, woodcuts by Titian and his contemporaries, and G.B. Piranesi’s dark and evocative prints of imaginary prisons from the eighteenth century. Major printmakers are examined and the virtuosity and diversity of printmaking during this period is explored through religious, mythological, and architectural subjects. [Gallery media, 2010]