Beginning around the mid-fifteenth century, European rulers began an ambitious quest to discover the uncharted lands lying far beyond their borders. As the bold explorations of Columbus, Magellan, Drake, and others drew the world’s cultures closer together, ideas mixed, and both science and art progressed to new levels of sophistication. Advanced techniques of anatomical study led artists to more lifelike renditions of human and animal forms, while increasing knowledge of optics led to advancements in the depiction of linear perspective. By the sixteenth century, European artists were able to bring to their work a new vocabulary of realism allowing a fuller, more powerful expression of ideas than ever before. The best of this era’s artists—today known as the old masters—revealed with superb technique the history, mythology, and spirit of Western civilization at the dawn of the modern era. This book of postcards presents thirty old-master drawings from the vast collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Many are studies for grander works; others constitute the end point of the artist’s intended expression. All are part of an unprecedented three-year partnership beginning in 2006 that brought these works and others from the Louvre to be exhibited at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. 30 full-color reproductions bound in a handy oversized postcard collection (card size: 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.). ISBN 978-0-7649-3808-5. |
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