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There’s still time to sign-up for Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers, taking place online May 19-20. Leading international scholars will address under-drawings, printmaking, workshop reuse, and the adoption of diverse graphic media by Venetian artists active between circa 1430 and 1620. The @venetian_disegno conference, hosted by The Warburg Institute, is free. You can register online at https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24105... (Image: Bassano del Grappa, Head of an Old Man with White Beard, Turned to the Right colored chalks, dampened and stumped, on paper, The Morgan Library & Museum New York)

Watercolors collected by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are on display at the Royal Collection Trust Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. Marking the bicentenary of the births of both Victoria and Albert, the exhibition features 80 of their most treasured watercolors, capturing the elegance of the British court, foreign travel and diplomacy, and, importantly, the close-knit family at the heart of it all. Included are several by Scottish artists, some of which will be seen in Scotland for the first time. The exhibit is open through October 3rd. (Image: Waller Hugh Paton, Edinburgh with a distant view of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, watercolor and bodycolor with gum arabic and burnishing, Royal Collection Trust, London)

MASTER DRAWINGS toasts our 3000 Instagram followers. We’re grateful to all of you for helping us accomplish this exciting achievement. We hope you will continue following MASTER DRAWINGS to read about cutting edge drawings scholarship and exhibitions. With a subscription to MASTER DRAWINGS you can access all the issues online, including the new Digital Resources page where scholarly materials further enrich drawings that are researched and documented in the publication. To subscribe go to https://masterdrawings.org/subscribe/ (Image: Claude Simpol, A Picnic Party, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of graphite, contours incised, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Scholars and students of Italian drawings and prints have a new resource to turn to for finding important works located throughout Italy’s art and academic institutions and organizations. Gabinetti disegni e stampe italiani (Italian Prints and Drawings Study Cabinets) at https://www.gabinettidisegniestampe.com/ spotlights over 40 locations and the artworks found in each one. Sample images are shared on their Instagram page @gabinettidisegniestampe. Begun by Margherita Clavarino, a PhD student in early modern prints at The Warburg Institute, Gabinetti disegni e stampe italiani was created to promote and enhance the Italian heritage of drawings and prints. (Image: Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Christ and a Hand Grasping His Hair, metalpoint, bluegrey prepared paper, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, one of the most imaginative architects of the Enlightenment, died in poverty and obscurity. In early 2019, the BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France (Bnf) and the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris organized an exhibition of Lequeu’s several hundred drawings which he had donated to the Bnf just before his death. To understand why this exhibit is so important to our appreciation of this little-known artist, read Kevin Salatino’s ex...hibition catalogue review in the current issue of MASTER DRAWINGS (volume 59, Issue 1). Learn why @kmsalatino, Chair of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, views Lequeu as a visionary, who saw something his contemporaries could not envision. (Image: Jean-Jacques Lequeu, " Young Man Making a Face, (No. 6) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris) See more

Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers, is the focus of an upcoming conference which will bring together leading international scholars and some of the most novel research in this field. Taking place online May 20-21, the sessions will address a range of topics, including: under-drawings, printmaking, workshop reuse, and the adoption of diverse graphic media by Venetian artists active between circa 1430 and 1620. The event, hosted by The Warburg Institute, is free. You can register at https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24105 (Image: Titian, Two Satyrs in a Landscape, pen and brown ink with white heightening, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)