Research
Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300–1500
Rome – Munich – Florence
The "Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1500" is a research and publication project of the earliest Italian drawings, founded in the 1950s at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich by former director Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, later joined by other researchers. In 2018 the project, with the photographic collection and library, was donated to the Photothek of the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut in Rome. The systematic publication of Italian Old Master drawings proceeds by regional areas and schools or by individual artists. After the volumes devoted since 1968 to central and southern Italy, Venice, Verona, Jacopo Bellini, Pisanello, Badile Album, Volume 16 has been freshly published in January 2023 by Lorenza Melli, The Drawings of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo, Teil III, Toskana, Band 16, Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2023. The research for this publication has been conducted with the facilities of the Kusthistorisches Institut in Florenz.