Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken
Carel van Tuyll, former director of the Department of Graphic Arts at the Musée du Louvre and the Drawing Institute’s 2019 Senior Fellow, will give the annual Thaw Lecture. Sponsored by the Morgan Drawing Institute, the annual Thaw Lecture aims to address critical topics in the study of drawings.
The most famous achievement of Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is his celebrated series of frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome (1596-1604). The unveiling of the Galleria Farnese’s ceiling led to a growing stream of artistic commissions from Cardinal Farnese and other patrons, all eager to secure works by the artist. However, the severe mental and physical breakdown that Annibale suffered in early 1605 made it impossible for him to undertake new projects, and few works are known from the last years of his life other than some etchings and some remarkable – and too often underrated – drawings. This lecture aims to take a fresh look at these late drawings of one of Italy’s foremost draftsmen, highlighting some well-known works as well as other, less familiar sheets from the Morgan and elsewhere.
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Shepherd with Pipes, and Two Dancing Children; Virgin and Child with Heads of Four Spectators, pen and brown ink on paper. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Otto Manley, 1978.17. Photography by Stephen H. Crossot, 2014.