Take a Closer Look: Elizabeth Narkin

While the CCA’s collection of prints and drawings is predominantly composed of materials from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it includes a small but coherent body of records from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries that often depict ancient monuments and designs for ecclesiastical orders. These materials reveal ideas of architecture, the thinking process of architects, and the context they worked in.
These materials were catalogued as they entered the collection at different moments of the CCA’s history. Looking at them again today, with a contemporary lens, allows to ask different questions than when they were originally described and to offer new interpretations, distinct from those of other collections of antique drawings. With this objective, the CCA invited a group of scholars to study these holdings during a week-long residency in 2021 and 2022. Their findings are used to update and enhance the descriptions of the works, but the scholars also talk to us, the readers, and explain why we should take a closer look at these drawings and what we can discover in them.
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