The second of two exhibitions featuring highlights from the Works on Paper Collection of the Carlos Museum will open in the John Howett Gallery on August 15.  While the first exhibition featured modern and contemporary works, this one will focus on prints and drawings from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.  These will remain on display until December 6, 2009.

The earliest works on view will be engravings by three of the greatest printmakers of the early sixteenth century: Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and Marcantonio Raimondi.  Also to be found are portraits of and by noted Netherlandish engravers of the latter half of the century: Philips Galle, Dirck Coornhert, and Hendrick Goltzius.  These three artists, among others, also feature prominently in this fall’s third floor exhibition, Scripture for the Eyes (October 17, 2009-January 24, 2010).

By the end of the sixteenth century, etching had become the favored printing technique of artists in Italy and the North, as the works by Annibale Carracci, Federico Barocci, and Rembrandt show. Along with the etchings by Carracci and Barocci, the two drawings by the Italian masters Palma Giovane and Giovanni Mauro della Rovere manifest the increasingly naturalistic form of expression coming to the fore at the turn of the seventeenth century.  The two prints by Barocci and Rembrandt also demonstrate how the dissemination of prints facilitated the exchange of ideas and influences between one part of Europe and another.

The exhibition closes with several images of Rome.  The seventeenth century Gardens of Rome by Falda document the appearance of the city in the age of the Baroque.  Piranesi’s views and imaginative recreations of ancient Roman monuments reveal the thinking of  an early archaeologist in the eighteenth-century city.

Madonna and Child in the Clouds
Federico Barocci
(Italian, ca. 1535-1612)
Ca. 1581
Etching and engraving
James T. Laney Fund
2008.62.1
Photo by Bruce M. White, 2009
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Pilate Washing His Hands from The Engraved Passion
Albrecht Durer,
(German, ca. 1471-1528)
Engraving
1998.001
Art History Department Fund 
Photo by Michael McKelvey