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Title: John Gere research papers and photographs regarding Italian Old Master drawings
Date (inclusive): 1960-1990
Number: 950082
Creator/Collector:
Gere, John A.
Physical Description:
9.0 linear feet
(12 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Papers and photographs document Gere's research on Italian old master drawings, especially Raphael and his circle, and Taddeo
and Federico Zuccaro.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
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 complied, 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.]
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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
Acquired from the Gere family in 1995. Additional material about Taddeo Zuccaro (1 linear ft.) was received in 1996.
Processed by Teresa Morales.
Scope and Content of Collection
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Files contain published and unpublished lectures, including a series on Raphael and his circle given at Cambridge; notes and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.
Arranged in 4 series:
Series I. Lectures, 1962-1964;
Series II. Travel notebooks, undated;
Series III. Correspondence and writings, 1959-1989;
Series IV. Photographs, undated
Zuccaro, Federico, ca. 1540-1609
Zuccaro, Taddeo, 1529-1566
Drawing, Italian-16th century
Black-and-white negatives
Color negatives
Color transparencies
Notebooks
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Vitzthum, Walter