Members' online talk and Q&A
About
Renaissance artists are well known for large-scale frescoes and murals. To make these took incredible preparation through studies and drawings.
In late 15th-century Italy, drawing assumed a new level of prominence and artistic brilliance in the hands of such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. The most spectacular drawings were the, at times, large-scale 'cartoons' used to transfer designs from paper to canvas or surfaces for fresco. The process of doing so means that few survive, but we have three fine examples in our collection.
Art guide Tim Maddison leads this online Member talk and Q&A. He will examine the process of transferring initial ideas to the final masterpiece through our collection of cartoons, along with others, and weigh up the case some cartoons are independent works of art in their own right. He will also explore the last legacy of cartoons and our modern understanding of the term.
Speaker
Tim Maddison is an accredited expert guide. Maddison completed the Sotheby's Works of Art Course after university, before spending the next five years working at Sotheby's and Phillips Bond Street, surrounded by an ever-changing carousel of treasures. This embedded a love for works of art, exhibitions and galleries. Maddison then went on to work as a dealer in vintage film posters, Americana and Art Deco, before opening London's first public gallery for vintage film and music posters. In his youth his favourite painting at the National Gallery was, 'The Family of Darius before Alexander', and he never imagined that decades later he would have the privilege of sharing its delights and that of so many other favourites with visitors.
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The Renaissance cartoon
Members' online talk and Q&A
Free for Members
This is an online event, exclusive to Members, hosted on Zoom.
Members, please book your free ticket to access this event. You will receive an E-ticket with instructions on how to access your online events, films and resources via your National Gallery account. Only one ticket can be booked per account.
A recording of this event will be made available to all ticket holders in the days following the event.
