"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This exhibition showcases works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth century in a range of drawn and printed media. A group of sixteenth-century views of Rome features images of the most celebrated monuments from antiquity and the Renaissance, such as the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, and Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio. A selection of very rare French Renaissance woodcuts is also exhibited. Renaissance and Baroque drawings and prints illustrating the connection between love and music are also on display, as is a selection of works from the eighteenth to the twentieth century featuring empty chairs—symbols for the missing, the expected, or the imagined.
[Image: Gustave Courbet “Self-Portrait” (19th Century) Conté crayon on paper.]
Media
Schedule
from October 05, 2010 to January 03, 2011
Artist(s)
Gustave Courbet, Georges Seurat, Maximilien Luce et al.