I segni nel tempo. Dibujos españoles de los Uffizi

The Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence hold more Spanish drawings than almost any museum in the world, yet the collection has long been little studied. This volume is the result of a research project directed by Benito Navarrete Prieto of the University of Alcalá, a specialist in Spanish Golden Age drawing, and it doubles as a scholarly catalogue of the Florentine holdings.

The exhibition, organized with Fundación MAPFRE and the Uffizi’s Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, brought 129 sheets from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century to Madrid. They range from Gaspar Becerra and Luis de Vargas to Jusepe de Ribera, Alonso Cano and Francisco Rizi, and include drawings by Alonso Berruguete, Vicente Carducho, Francisco Pacheco and Herrera the Younger newly identified among works long filed as Italian.

Each drawing has a detailed entry by Spanish and international specialists, and the essays trace how the sheets came to Florence.

An indispensable reference for collectors, curators and students of Spanish drawing.