The Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Teyler Museum: A New Catalogue

Online Symposium

Admission is free of charge

Wednesday 27 October, 16.00 - 18.00 (CEST)

The Italian drawings in the collection of the Teyler Museum are world-famous. They belong to the most important acquisition in the museum's history: the purchase in 1790 of several albums of drawings from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) and Roman nobleman Livio Odescalchi (1658-1713). Overnight, the brand-new museum came into possession of over 1700 drawings.

The seventeenth and eighteenth-century drawings, with sheets by Bernini, Carracci, Guido Reni, Gercino, Salvator Rosa and many others, are now described in a new catalogue by Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Van Tuyll, former chief curator of Teylers Museum and head of the department of prints and drawings in the Louvre, spent over twenty years researching this part of the collection, which consists of 900 drawings. In this online symposium, he will present the most significant findings of his research, and three international experts will respond.

Programme

16.00 Welcome by Terry van Druten

16.10 Presentation by Carel van Tuyll on his research

16.45 Responses by international peers

• Simonetta Prosperi Valenti (University Tor Vergata Rome / Padre Resta Project)
• Sebastian Schütze (University of Vienna)
• Cristiana Romalli (Sotheby’s London)

17.30 Discussion and questions

18.00 Closing words by Marjan Scharloo