Bolognese And Emilian Schools; Author: Jaffe, Michael; Hardback; Book

Author: Jaffe, Michael
Devonshire Collection; Hardback; Book; 200 Colour and 110 B&w Illustrations, Bibliography
320 pages
Published: November 1994
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714829358

The Collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, ranks with the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle as the finest privately owned groupof such drawings in Britain and as one of the great princely collections of Europe. It contains outstanding sheets by the great masters from every artistic school. The four volumes devoted to the Italian drawings have detailed entries for nearly 1,000 works from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, among them numerous reattributions and discoveries.Part of the catalogue raisonne of the collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, this book covers the Bolognese and Emilian schools. The entire catalogue of the collection deals with over 1000 drawings from the 15th- to the 18th-century.