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Drawing on blue : European drawings on blue paper, 1400s-1700s / edited by Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan, with the assistance of Alec Aldrich ; contributions by Mari-Tere Álvarez, Thea Burns, Marie-Noëlle Grison, Camilla Pietrabissa, and Leila Sauvage ; Elizabeth S.G. Nicholson, project editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024.Description: ix, 149 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781606068670
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Contents:
Drawn to Blue : Introduction / Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan
Blue Paper in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy / Thea Burns
Making Blue Paper : Innovations in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750 / Leila Sauvage and Marie-Noëlle Grison
An Exercise on Blue : Learning to Draw in Jacopo Tintoretto's Workshop / Edina Adam
Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Blue Paper and Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-Century France / Camilla Pietrabissa
Color and Contrast in an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Drawing on Blue Paper : Francisco Bayeu / Mari-Tere Álvarez
Examination of Blue Paper : A Systematic Approach : Glossary of Technical and Historical Terms / Michelle Sullivan
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Technical Appendixes
Summary: Investigates the history of blue paper from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, giving consideration to issues of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Green 741.923 ADA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12915

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, 30 January - 28 April 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142) and index.

Drawn to Blue : Introduction / Edina Adam and Michelle Sullivan

Blue Paper in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy / Thea Burns

Making Blue Paper : Innovations in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750 / Leila Sauvage and Marie-Noëlle Grison

An Exercise on Blue : Learning to Draw in Jacopo Tintoretto's Workshop / Edina Adam

Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Blue Paper and Artistic Identity in Eighteenth-Century France / Camilla Pietrabissa

Color and Contrast in an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Drawing on Blue Paper : Francisco Bayeu / Mari-Tere Álvarez

Examination of Blue Paper : A Systematic Approach : Glossary of Technical and Historical Terms / Michelle Sullivan

Plates

Technical Appendixes

Investigates the history of blue paper from the late fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, giving consideration to issues of supply, use, economics, and innovative creative practice.