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Two albums of drawings by Lombard masters of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from the estate of the Clary-Aldringen family

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Two albums of drawings by Lombard masters of the Renaissance period (sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries), the contents of which are now in museums in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, constitute one of the most valuable collections of drawings preserved in Bohemia from the seventeenth century. Apparently originally the property of Antonio Maria Viani (1555/60–1630), it remains impossible to identify with certainty who collected the drawings at some time before 1676 and pasted them into the two albums, or how they came to be in the possession of the Clary-Aldringen family, from whose hands they eventually passed into public ownership. The aim of this article is to trace the records of this extraordinary collection in the possession of the Clary-Aldringen family since 1676, and its fate after 1945. While one of the albums was later dismembered and the constituent drawings were variously treated, we have been able to trace almost the whole of this collection.

Source: Journal of the History of Collections

DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhae003

Authors: Eliška Zlatohlávková, Martin Zlatohlávek

Institutions: Palacký University Olomouc, Charles University

Language: English

Topic: Historical Art and Architecture Studies

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,729

Funders: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci