Julian Brooks: Andrea del Sarto: The Tailor’s Son and the Making of Masterpieces

This talk reveals the astonishing creativity of Andrea del Sarto and examines the artist’s use of innovative, schematic red chalk compositional drawings and keenly observed studies from life.

Julian Brooks is Curator in the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, with responsibility for the Italian, British, and Spanish drawings and watercolors. Previously, he was Print Room Supervisor at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He co-curated Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (2015), J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free (2015), Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture (2010), Luminous Paper: British Drawings and Watercolors (2011), Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (2007–8), and Guercino: Mind to Paper (2006–7). He will also co-curate Bacon, Freud, and the School of London, which opens at the Getty in summer 2016. His book Master Drawings Close-Up (2010) was co-published by the Getty and the British Museum.

—This lecture is made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation

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