‘The Poetry of Line. Masterpieces of Italian drawing

From 31 January to 26 April 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘The Poetry of Line. Masterpieces of Italian drawing’, a selection from its small but prestigious collection of Italian drawings covering the period between Renaissance and Baroque, which have now been examined by students from the University of Zurich.

The exhibition displays around thirty of the most important works from the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Kunsthaus Zürich. From the sight of the lines skilfully drawn on the paper it is but a short intellectual leap to the genesis of an artwork.

RAPHAEL, CORREGGIO, GUERCINO

Many of the works have long been classics of the Prints and Drawings Collection: they include a preliminary drawing by Raphael for the Vatican ‘stanze’ and the graceful depiction of Lucretia by Palma Vecchio. Others have never even been published before, despite being the work of equally celebrated masters such as Guercino, Correggio and Carlo Maratti.




 Giuseppe Cesari (known as Cavalier d’Arpino)


Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (known as Guercino)
 Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (known as Il Grechetto)