The North Italian Album c.1500, North Italian Sketchbook after 1480, A volume of drawings on vellum (many coloured) predominantly architectural on vellum including intarsia subjects, perspectives, frames and screens, tabernacles, trophies, furniture, all based on antique and contemporary sources, (34 pages). Later frontispiece insc: Disegni/Architettura/del 1400. Marbled card boards (320 x 230)

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Vol 122

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The North Italian Album c.1500, North Italian Sketchbook after 1480, A volume of drawings on vellum (many coloured) predominantly architectural on vellum including intarsia subjects, perspectives, frames and screens, tabernacles, trophies, furniture, all based on antique and contemporary sources, (34 pages). Later frontispiece insc: Disegni/Architettura/del 1400. Marbled card boards (320 x 230)

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Later frontispiece insc: Disegni/Architettura/del 1400

Signed and dated

c.1500

Medium and dimensions

Marbled card boards (320 x 230)

Hand

Unidentified draughtsman, c.1500

Notes

For a full catalogue entry see Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, London 1998, Vol 1 pp 12-51; see also Lynda Fairbairn The North Italian Album, London 1998

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Drawing

Exhibition history

Il Muse et Il Principe: Los Studiolo di Belfiore à Ferrara, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, September - December 1991
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
A Renaissance Enigma: The North Italian Album, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 24 April - 12 September 1998
Order: Myth, Meaning and Beauty in Architecture, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 16 October 2009 - 30 January 2010; Reading Museum, 22 January - 27 March 2011

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