All online drawings of Florentine painters studied by Bernard Berenson

Online since yesterday is the complete catalog of drawings by Florentine painters that the great art historian Bernard Berenson studied in his monumental work The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, first published in 1903, revised and corrected in 1938 and translated into Italian in 1961. The work was done by a team of art historians and information technology specialists coordinated by theHarvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the research center based at the Villa I Tatti, which belonged to Bernard Berenson, who left it to Harvard University. The project was funded in part by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

The catalog is available at http://florentinedrawings.itatti.harvard.edu and allows the drawings to be searched by artist, attribution, edition, technique, and place of preservation. A number of highlights have been included on the project’s home page to facilitate searches (drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra’ Bartolomeo, Botticelli, those preserved in the Uffizi, the Louvre, and so on). For each drawing is the description Berenson gave of it in the various editions of his work. Good reproductions of the drawings are also included, with links to the entry in the catalog of the institution that preserves them. This is another valuable tool for art history studies.

Source: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Pictured: Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Isabella d’Este (c. 1499-1450; drawing in charcoal, sanguine and yellow pastel on paper, 61 x 46.5 cm; Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins)

All online drawings of Florentine painters studied by Bernard Berenson

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