... of portraits of the Emilian school and important panels by the Venetians, such as Jacometto Veneziano and Giovanni Bellini. The Lehman Collection also is distinguished for an important group of early northern masters, including Petrus Christus, ...

2005-09-22

Featuring 31 drawings from the Metropolitan Museum’s Robert Lehman Collection, with an additional ten chosen from the Department of Drawings and Prints, this installation will showcase a period in Italian art that witnessed the emergence of drawing as an essential tool for artists. These rare examples of North Italian drawings from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries will illustrate the versatility of the medium over more than a century. Highlights will include the magnificent colored drawing of a Gazelle from the circle of Michelino da Besozzo; the large pen-and-ink drawing from the circle of Giovanni Bellini depicting Vulcan Building a Fence Around the Mount of Venus; and two landscape drawings by Domenico Campagnola.

Robert Lehman Wing

... da Besozzo; the large pen-and-ink drawing from the circle of Giovanni Bellini depicting Vulcan Building a Fence Around the Mount of Venus ; and two ...