Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy
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Antonio II
Antonio II Badile
Antonio II Badile Album
Author_Evelyn Karet
Badile Album
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Christ Child
early modern drawing collections
Epigraphic Collection
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Fondation Custodia
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Fra Giovanni Giocondo Da Verona
Frits Lugt
Frits Lugt Collection
Gabriele Vendramin
Giovanni Da Verona
humanist collectors
II Badile
Italian art provenance
Mehmed II
Michele Sanmicheli
paleographic analysis
Peter Windows
provenance research in Italian drawings
Renaissance art collecting
San Biagio
sixteenth century art history
Stefano Da Verona
Stefano Di Giovanni Da Verona
Ultra-violet Rays
Vasari's Libro
Vasari’s Libro
Veronese Humanist
Western Album
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754665717
- Weight: 1020g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Evelyn Karet's in-depth study of the Antonio II Badile Album - the earliest known example of an art collection pasted onto the pages of a book - is both focused and broad in its appeal to those interested in the early modern era. The provenance of the album is traced from its assemblage to the seventeenth-century collection of Conte Lodovico Moscardo to its dismantling by the dealer Francis Matthiesen in the 1950s, establishing that the volume conserved in the Frits Lugt Collection is not an original but a replica produced by Matthiesen. Although Antonio II must be celebrated as the collector of the drawings, new paleographic analysis has identified the actual compiler of the album after Antonio’s death providing a terminus post quem in the late 1530s or early 1540s. Karet enlarges the focus from the album itself to the historic tradition of collecting drawings in northern Italy in the early modern era before Vasari, for which the album provides a new point of reference. Throughout the book, Karet discusses the Badile family, examines the individual drawings in the book, investigates the contacts between artists and humanists, their rich, diverse collections and the humanist mind-set that fostered the appreciation of drawings. She explores notable early drawing collections in northern Italy and the role of northern Italy as a center of collection in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book concludes with two appendices: a reconstruction of the original album, including a discussion of the reconstruction process, suggestions about what the album originally looked like, and a page-by-page guide to its contents; and a detailed analysis of Francis Matthiesen's career. This book opens up new areas of inquiry into an overlooked subject.
Evelyn Karet holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University, USA where she was previously Associate Professor and taught Renaissance Art History. A scholar of late Gothic and Renaissance art, she has also taught at Boston College, Wheaton College, and the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Italy.
