Den Menschen vor Augen

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One of the major achievements of modern art has been the depiction of people. Italian artists developed new strategies in drawing to visualize people. While 15th-century artists worked mainly with silverpoint and pen, new drawing media soon emerged. They made it possible to better understand people and their outward appearance, and even to penetrate the realms of emotion and feeling. A selection of 100 sheets from the plentiful Munich collection of nude, garment, and head studies from the Renaissance to the 18th century is presented here. The works show how the artists of various Italian artistic regions and epochs chose their means of drawing to convey an individually characterised image of humanity. Look inside Exhibition Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich January 23, until April 13, 2025

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Kurt Zeitler, curator responsible for early Italian and French art at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München since 1997, and deputy director since 2000. The focus of his work is on cataloguing the museums holdings, whereby he most recently published the catalogues VENEDIG. La Serenissima, and GRANDE DECORAZIONE.

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