Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Apr 2015
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Morgan Library and Museum
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The Morgan Drawing Institute: Symposium
Drawing and Invention
April 24, 2015, 10 am – 1 pm
This symposium is devoted to the role of drawing in the creative process,considering the practice of artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Papers will address different aspects of invention by looking at a variety of drawings, ranging from first sketches to more developed compositional studies.
Keynote Address
“Innovation and Invention in Italian Renaissance Drawing”
David Ekserdjian, Professor of Art and Film History, University of Leicester
“Parmigianino in Reverse: Etching, Drawing, and Creative Process”
Aimee Ng, Associate Curator, The Frick Collection, New York
“Collaboration and Invention in Drawings by the Carracci”
Mary Vaccaro, Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Arlington
Coffee Break
“Adam Elsheimer’s Gouaches: Technique, Function, and Narrative”
Joachim Jacoby, Independent Scholar (Author of “Die Zeichnungen von Adam Elsheimer: Kritischer Katalog”)
“Van Veen, Rubens, Van Dyck and the Allure of the ‘Crabbeling’”
Stijn Alsteens, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Free admission.
To register, please contact the Drawing Institute at [email protected].
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York