Drawing in early Renaissance Italy / by Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Some general considerations -- Written sources -- The status of drawings in the fifteenth century -- Survival of drawings -- The origins of drawing -- Drawing in workshop training -- Drawing in artistic exploration -- Drawing surfaces -- Parchment and other small-scale surfaces -- Paper -- 'Sinopie' and cartoons -- Techniques -- Silverpoint drawing -- Drawing with pen and ink -- Chalk drawing -- Brush drawing -- Model-books and sketch-books -- The model-book and its functions -- Pisanello: the transition from model-book to sketch-book -- Drawing-books in early quattrocento Tuscany -- From sketch-book to portfolio 'pattern' drawing -- Figure drawing -- Study of the nude in Florence -- Sculptural drawing -- Figure drawing outside Florence -- Figure groups -- Compositional drawings -- Compositional drawings in drawing-books -- Contract drawings -- Compositional sketching -- The evolution of a pictorial design -- Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Leonardo Da Vinci -- The quattrocento legacy.…”