Italian Art to 1960
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 190 Italian artworks, which date broadly from 1300 to 1900. This collection comprises about 140 paintings and 50 drawings. It originates from the main artistic centres of Italy, including Venice, Bologna, Rome, Florence and Naples. The core of the collection is made up of a number of important 15th and 16th century Venetian School works by major artists such as Giovanni Bellini, Titian and Paris Bordon. This includes one of the few works by Titian considered crucial to the study of his early career – ‘The Adulteress brought before Christ’ and its accompanying detached fragment ‘Head of a Man’. The collection also includes paintings closely associated with the workshops of Botticelli, Lippi and Pesellino. In addition, it boasts 17th- and 18th century works of particularly high quality and importance by Carlo Dolci, Domenichino, Francesco Guardi and Salvator Rosa. Drawings in the collection include prominent works by Guercino and works of the Bolognese School, many of them linked to the Caracci family.
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