National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin's Place
WC2H 0HE London

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artists & participants

Annibale Carracci,  Albrecht Dürer,  Domenico Ghirlandaio,  Hans Holbein der Jüngere,  Jacob Jordaens,  Leonardo da Vinci,  Rembrandt van Rijn,  Francesco Salviati 

press release

The Encounter. Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt
13.07.2017 - 22.10.2017

The creative encounter between individual artists and sitters is explored in this major exhibition featuring portrait drawings by some of the outstanding masters of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Drawn from the holdings of British collections, exquisite observational drawings by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein, and Rembrandt will be on display in a celebration of portrait drawing from life, during a time of extraordinary artistic ingenuity.