Inigo Jones, Italian Art, and the Practice of Drawing

Abstract

Inigo Jones, architect to Charles I and connoisseur of Italian painting, annotated Vasari's Lives and copied Italian figurative prints. His annotations to Vasari's advice on good disegno are connected with his attempt late in life to improve his skill as a draftsman. Although Jones followed the methods demonstrated in drawing manuals, he did not always make literal copies, and he added meaning to some of his drawings of heads—for example, two sketches that he identified as Socrates and Alcibiades, examined in detail here.

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Jeremy Wood

Jeremy Wood, a specialist in seventeenth-century Northern European art, is currently collaborating on Volume xxv of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, on Rubens's copies after Italian art. He contributed to the exhibition catalogue Rubens in Oxford, 1988, and has written on engravings after Raphael for the Warburg Journal, Flemish copies after Primaticcio for Master Drawings, and Van Dyck's collection for the Burlington Magazine [Department of Humanities, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford OX3 OBP England].