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INVENTORY OF THE JOHN GERE RESEARCH PAPERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
REGARDING OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, 1960-1990
950082
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Title: John Gere research papers
and photographs regarding Italian Old Master drawings
Dates: 1960-1990
Collection number: 950082
Creator:
Gere, John
A.
Extent:
9 linear feet
(12
boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
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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John Gere research papers and photographs relating to Italian old
master drawings, 1960-1990, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute,
Accession no. 950082.
Acquired from the Gere family in 1995. Additional material about
Taddeo Zuccaro (1 linear ft.) was received in 1996.
Processed by Teresa Morales.
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.]
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Files contain published and unpublished lectures, including a series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.
Arrangement
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
Zuccari, Federico, 1542
or 3-1609.
Zuccari, Taddeo,
1529-1566
Drawing, Italian-16th
century
Black-and-white
negatives
Color
negatives
Color
transparencies
Notebooks
Photographic
prints
Photographs,
Original
Vitzthum,
Walter