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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 Linear Feet
(12 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(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
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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.]
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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Files contain published and unpublished lectures, including a series on Raphael and his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, Taddeo
Zuccaro, Federico
Drawing, Italian-16th century
Black-and-white negatives
Color negatives
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Color transparencies
Notebooks
Vitzthum, Walter
Gere, John A.