The drawings of Raphael and his circle offer a unique view into the creative processes of this renowned artist. Sixty-eight of his most discussed and controversial studies of form, movement and detail from the collection at the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, are examined here by a leading scholar. Works by Raphael's masters such as Perugino, and his pupils including Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga and Polidoro da Caravaggio are considered together -- examining the development of workshop methods, style and techniques -- and as individual works of art.

"I felt that it would be of unusual value to scholars and to the public generally if we could see Raphael in relation to the artists working in his circle in Rome. Therefore, nearly half of the works described in this volume are by Raphael; the others are by Giulio Romano, Giovanni Francesco Penni, Perino del Vaga, Polidoro da Caravaggio, and Baldassare Peruzzi." /

Among the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum's extensive holdings of Old Master drawings, the collection of drawings by the Antwerp masters Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck stand out as absolute highlights. This generously illustrated publication examines 70 of their best drawings, discussing not only the significance of these works, but also their provenance, attribution and dating. It also sets the work in context, by considering the work of a variety of contemporaries on the seventeenth-century Flemish scene (many of whom were influenced directly by the work of these masters), and by including essays on a variety of topics of art and culture in Antwerp. This book will be a major contribution to the study of seventeenth-century Northern European art.

A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.

This book examines all facets of the High Renaissance painter Raphael.