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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Michelangelo to Picasso demonstrates how interpretation has stimulated creativity. The medium of drawing in particular has been favoured by artists in their dialogue with the past. In this exhibition over seventy drawings by major artists from the sixteenth through to the early twentieth centuries have been brought together to exemplify artists’ reactions to other works of art. All the drawings are interpretations variations or copies of other works ranging from sculptures of classical antiquity to the work of immediate predecessors. From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century copying after acknowledged masterpieces formed the undisputed basis for academic instruction but even up to the present day there have been many other reasons why artists have copied the work of others: to stimulate the imagination to record a particular work of interest to pay tribute to an admired master or to re- interpret transform or surpass an original in some way. The selection of drawings in this book presents a record of some remarkable and sometimes surprising encounters: Michelangelo and Masaccio D?rer and Mantegna Rembrandt and Leonardo Delacroix and Rubens and even Ingres and Holbein. In every case the significance of this encounter and its subsequent repercussions for the artist responding to his source are discussed. All the sources are illustrated as well as in many cases related works of art. (MP)