Corpus of Spanish Drawings: Madrid, 1600-50

This series by the late, Professor Diego Angulo and Dr. A.E. Perez Sanchez, former Director of the Prado Museum and now Professor at the University of Madrid, is designed to provide an authoritative reference work for the relatively unknown but important field of Spanish Drawings from 1400 up to the time of Goya. Each volume catalogues a carefully defined period or School, and offers the student and the collector of Spanish art highly important study-material and illustrations, which have hitherto been inaccessible. Every volume includes an introduction, a detailed catalogue containing information about size, medium, condition and provenance of each drawing, and a corpus of illustrations. There are biographical notes for every named artist, with full bibliographies and indexes. This volume covers drawings executed during the first half of the 17th-century, belonging to the Madrid School. They are stylistically interesting in that although a strong Italian influence is apparent, the characteristic Spanish delicacy and emotive ornamentation prevail. The book contains the work of 27 known and many anonymous artists, with the drawings of Eugenio Cajes and Vicente Carducho constituting the greater part of the catalogue. The drawings include sketches for paintings, portraits, murals, funeral monuments and altar pieces.