#master drawings

[gregdotorg]

After ID'ing art books on Cy Twombly's shelf, Giovanni Lusi uncovered direct connections between Twombly's early works in Rome and Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and codices. Lusi presented on it at the Master Drawings Symposium in NYC in Feb. 2026.

Codex Twombly [greg.org, h/t jack]

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Death of Hector

Artist : Carlo Alberto Baratta ((1754-1820)

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Michelangelo’s Birthday

Michelangelo was born on this day in 1475 in Caprese near Florence, Italy. The painter, sculptor, architect and poet is widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period.⁠ ⁠ Here, Michelangelo drew in pen and ink to shape a winged fire-breathing dragon. If you look closely, you can see two drawings of faces below the final sketch - these were drawn by a student of Michelangelo's before they we're abandoned and drawn over by the artist.⁠ ⁠ Works on paper fade quickly when exposed to light and are extremely fragile, making it impossible to keep them on permanent display. Our Western Art Print Room offers access to beautiful and significant drawings, watercolours and prints by a wide range of artists from the fifteenth century to the present day including Michelangelo, Rubens, Ruskin and Degas, among others. Find out more on our website.⁠

[geritsel]

Jacob Jordaens - portrait drawings

[clannfearrunt]

I'm so fucking bored of this assignment. I want to be drawing literally anything else

[sleepydrummer]

Francisco de Goya, Leave It All to Providence, 1816-20

Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum

[hyperallergic]

Master Drawings, which has taken place over the past week, essentially invites a group of art dealers who have spread their net a bit wider to exhibit rare drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches from the 14th to 20th centuries.  Leonora Carrington “Oso hormiguero (Anteater with Shaman)” (1973), pencil on paper, 13½ × 16¾ inches (photo courtesy Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art) Master Drawings New York continues at selected galleries on the Upper East Side of Manhattan through tomorrow January 28.

[ashmoleanmuseum]

RAPHAEL AND THE ART OF EMOTION

Angelamaria Aceto searches the Ashmolean collection of Raphael drawings to discover how he conveyed emotion in his drawings

"Raphael used drawing as a means of observation, as a mode of experimentation, and as a way of reflecting on human emotions and actions."

On the anniversary of his birth, learn more about Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and his unparalleled ability to translate human emotion to paper in this piece by Research Assistant Angelamaria Aceto.