This book catalogs a selection of 100 European drawings (each accompanied by a detailed description written by experts) from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century drawn from the Ashmolean's acclaimed collection of master drawings. All drawings are presented as full-color plates. Artists range from Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo, to Rubens, Rembrandt, Holbein, and Gainsborough.

This volume, one of a series of sixteen, catalogues the eighteenth-century Italian drawings in The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Focusing exclusively on examples from the 16th century, the great age of Italian drawing, this stunning volume, published to accompany an early-1994 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 124 prized works from The Metropolitan, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and some 20 private collections in New York. The catalogue is organized by school and, within each section, chronologically by artist. Each drawing is illustrated and presented with a discussion that places it in the context of the artist's career and explores the purpose for which it was made. Paper edition (unseen), $35. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

For the first time ever, all paintings in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum have been brought together in one volume. Every picture is illustrated and almost all are represented in colour. Biographies of all known artists in the collection are also included, making this catalogue an invaluable reference work for specialist libraries, collectors and general readers alike.