Jacopo Bellinis Book Of Drawings In The Louvre

Download or read book Jacopo Bellini's "Book of Drawings" in the Louvre and the Paduan Academy of Francesco Squarcione written by Norberto Gramaccini and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The RF 1475-1556 album in the Louvre is regarded as a very important corpus of drawings from the early Renaissance. Norberto Gramaccini shows that the traditional attribution to the Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini and the interpretation of the contents contingent on it have to be subjected to a revision. Based on new findings, the mastermind and financier behind the book of drawings was actually the Paduan painter Francesco Squarcione, assisted by some of his most gifted pupils including Andrea Mantegna, Jacopo Bellini's future son-in-law. The topics of the drawings--anatomy, perspective, archaeology, mythology, contemporary chronicles, and animals--were part of the teaching program of an art academy established by Squarcione, which provided crucial impulses for the status of artists in the modern era and the dissemination of the idea of academies.