DRAWING IN VENICE

This catalogue highlights the significance of drawing as a concept and as a practice in the artistic life of Venice. It reveals the variety of aims, purposes and techniques in drawing from Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto to Tiepolo and Canaletto. Many of the works have not been published for some years. Drawing in Venice presents new research which traces continuities in Venetian drawing over t hree centuries, from around 1500 down to the foundation of the first academy of art in Venice in 1750.