Contents: Director's Foreword, Lial Jones; Acknowledgements, William Breazeale; Preface, William Breazeale; Notes to Reader; Introduction, William Breazeale; Ideals and Masters: The Nude in Italy, 1530-1899, William Breazeale; International Currents: The Nude in the Low Countries 1550-1750, Susan Anderson; Academie, academie, etude: Figural Drawing in France, 1650-1885, Christine Giviskos; The Nude in German Art, c.1490-1830, Christiane Andersson; List of Figures; Bibliography; Index
William Breazeale is the Associate Curator at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Susan Anderson is an author and editor who completed her PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Christine Giviskos is Associate Curator at the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. Christiane Andersson is the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History at Bucknell University.
'This book is a rarely directed and wholly fascinating introduction to some of the many constituent mysteries of master drawings.' 'Anyone who has ever wondered why and how representations of the human nude became so central to Renaissance and post-Renaissance Western art will derive great pleasure from this catalogue ... Its numerous high-quality reproductions, informative essays, and catalogue entries for each of the drawings exhibited offer the reader comprehensive descriptions of the themes that were significant to artists and their audience during those centuries, and of the training and practices that enabled artists to create images of the human body expressing humanist values.' caa reviews
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