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19/9/2004

Tuscan Drawings

National Gallery Complex - The Mound, Edinburgh

from the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the twinning of the City of Edinburgh with Florence, the National Gallery of Scotland is mounting a display of some of the finest Tuscan drawings from the Gallery’s collection. Concentrating on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Tuscan draughtsmanship, the display will include works by artists such as Vasari, Allori, Bandinelli, Beccafumi, Boscoli, Cantagallina, Della Bella and Pontormo. The works shown will explore a variety of genres, ranging from landscape to figurative studies and works connected with religious commissions, and illustrate the range of materials and techniques employed by artists at this period. Tuscan Drawings is part of a series of displays highlighting the outstanding quality and variety of the drawings housed in the Gallery’s Print Room.

Christopher Baker, Chief Curator, said:

“The Tuscan drawings in the collection of the National Gallery are justly famous. They provide intimate insights into the working practices of some of the most illustrious Italian artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The National Gallery has so many exceptional works of this type that it was difficult to narrow down the selection. Our hope is that this display will form an interesting counterpoint to the splendid Venetian drawings in the current Age of Titian exhibition, and inspire more visitors to come and study such works in the Gallery’s Print Room, which is now accessible from the new Weston Link.”

A special evening lecture by the Director-General, Sir Timothy Clifford, will be held on 28 September in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre in the new Weston Link. Tuscan Art in the National Gallery of Scotland, c.1300-1750 will commence at 7.30pm. Admission is free.

For further information and images please contact the National Galleries of Scotland Press Office on 0131 624 6332/314/325.

National Gallery of Scotland
The Mound, Edinburg

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