Medieval Drawings 1150-1550 brings together a group of rare and very early works on parchment and paper executed during a period spanning four centuries of European history. These remarkable survivals incorporate pattern sheets and modelbook exemplars, preparatory sketches, architectural proposals, and skillful studies after contemporary prints and panel paintings. Together, they evidence the extraordinary diversity of artistic vision, invention, and design that began with the drawn line but suffused all the arts of the European Middle Ages.
Sam Fogg
15D Clifford St London W1S 4JZ
15D Clifford St London W1S 4JZ
Saint John of the Crucifixion, Upper Rhine Valley, c. 1480
A double-sided cutting from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, Austria or Bavaria, c. 1450
The Macedonian general Antipater and Julius Caesar appear with the inscription ‘Antipater ostendit julio cesari cicatrices suas’ (Antipater showed his scars to Julius Caesar)
Initial Q inhabited with a young woman amongst scrolling foliage, Leaf from a Passionary for Easter, Austria, probably Salzburg, c. 1160
An architectural drawing of a tower, Southwestern France, Toulouse?, c. 1500-20
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