


Drawing Cabinet
The Pinacoteca’s less well-known collections include a collection of drawings dating back to the first half of the 19th century, part of a group of drawings that began to build up as teaching supports when the Accademia di Belle Arti was first established. According to a tradition dating back to the school of the Carracci brothers, drawing contains within it a synthesis of the manual and intellectual processes that form the basis of an artist’s training.
The initial core of the collection contains a number of preparatory drawings for paintings now in the Pinacoteca, along with several extremely rare cartoons published only in 1959 in a series of exhibitions in Bologna and bearing out the importance of drawings in increasing our understanding of paintings (and vice-versa) in the wake of a renewed interest in 17th century painting of the Emilian school in the modern era.
The collection has continued to grow thanks to donations and acquisitions that include the drawings of the Surrealists Picabia, Duchamp and Man Ray, offering a truly unique opportunity for research into workshop secrets and into the creative processes through which artists move as they draw ever closer to the execution of the final image.
Viewing by appointment only, from Wednesday to Friday.
Curator: Letizia Lodi
letizia.lodi@cultura.gov.it
tel. +39 02 72263234


Study of Head and Hands
Gaetano Gandolfi
Ragazzo di profilo con cappello bordato di pelliccia
Giambattista Piazzetta
Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino
Cristoforo Savolini
San Pietro che risana lo storpio
Simone Cantarini
Mezza figura di giovane con profilo verso destra
Guercino (Giovan Francesco Barbieri)
Assunta
Guido Reni
Cartone preparatorio per la Fortezza e la Temperanza
Ludovico Carracci
Madonna and Child crowned by an Angel and Two Figures
Federico Barocci (Federico Fiori)
Self-Portrait
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
Studio di testa maschile di tre-quarti volta a destra (Cristo)
Federico Barocci (Federico Fiori)
Adorazione del bambino
Bernardino Lanino
Studi tecnici, progetto di un contatore d’acqua per Bernardo Rucellai (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci
Uomo a mezzo busto di profilo rivolto verso destra (recto)
Leonardo da Vinci
Saint John the Baptist with the Holy Lamb
Lorenzo Costa the Elder
Madonna and the Child with an Angel
Andrea Solario