Made for Manufacture: Drawing for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts

By Stan Parchin

Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California (February 6-May 20, 2007), features rare works on paper by European artists from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. A number of them during the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods designed three-dimensional objects (e.g., jewelry, metalwork, stained-glass windows, statues, table ornaments and tapestries) that skilled craftsmen eventually created. The drawings on display, from the Flemish, French, German, Italian, Netherlandish and Spanish schools, come from the Getty Museum and a private collection.