John Gere research papers and photographs regarding Italian Old Master drawings, 1960-1990

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Summary

Creators:

Abstract:

Papers and photographs document Gere's research on Italian old master drawings, especially Raphael and his circle, and Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro.

Extent:

9 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

John Gere research papers and photographs relating to Italian old master drawings, 1960-1990, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 950082.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa950082

Background

Scope and content:

Papers and photographs document Gere's research on Italian drawings, especially those of Raphael and his circle, and Taddeo Zuccaro.

Files contain published and unpublished lectures, including a series on Raphael and his circle given at Cambridge; notes and drafts for articles; 33 notebooks detailing research on Italian drawings in various print rooms; 4 folders of correspondence, especially concerning Gere's monograph on the drawings of Taddeo Zuccaro and related letters from Walter Vitzthum; and ca. 3,100 annotated photographs of Italian old master drawings, one-half of which are of drawings and paintings by Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro.

Biographical / historical:

John Arthur Giles Gere (1921-1995) was a British art historian and connoisseur of Italian sixteenth-century drawings. Educated at Winchester and Balliol, he became Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 1946, and served as Keeper from 1973 to 1981.

He compiled, with Philip Pouncey, two important catalogs of drawings: Drawings by Raphael, published in 1962, and Artists working in Rome ca. 1550-ca. 1640.

Gere wrote a series of articles on Taddeo Zuccaro in the Burlington Magazine, leading to catalogs, exhibitions, and his monograph, Taddeo Zuccaro: His development studied in his drawings (1969). [See Nicholas Penny's obituary, Burlington Magazine, vol. 137, No. 1106 May 1995, pp. 319-321.]

Acquisition information:

Acquired from the Gere family in 1995. Additional material about Taddeo Zuccaro (1 linear ft.) was received in 1996.

Processing information:

Processed by Teresa Morales.

Arrangement:

Arranged in four series: Series I. Lectures, 1962-1964; Series II. Travel notebooks, undated; Series III. Correspondence and writings, 1959-1989; Series IV. Photographs, undated.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

archives, personal papers, and manuscripts

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Drawing, Italian-16th century
Black-and-white negatives
Color negatives
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Color transparencies
Notebooks
Names:: Zuccaro, Taddeo, 1529-1566
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609

Access and use

Restrictions:: Open for use by qualified researchers.
Terms of access:: Contact Library Rights and Reproductions.