The monumental drawing was clearly a project for a full-scale painting.
That the relationship between the herdsman and his beasts was one that Claude studied with great tenderness is clear here from the monumental drawing of two men tending an ox, which comes from the Thaw Collection.
The monumental drawing of St. John the Evangelist, which Lehman bought late in his life, has not as yet been identified beyond "Upper Rhine, Switzerland (circa 1480)." But he is a splendid, committed, boisterous evocation of Christ's favorite disciple, who did not hesitate to drink poison when challenged to do so (and survived).
The exhibition, "Tiepolo, Guardi and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings," on view from Sept. 27 through Jan . 5 will include about 30 of the museum's vast collection of Tiepolo drawings (its holdings number more than 200), including a monumental early drawing of Hercules and dozens of studies in pen and wash for Tiepolo's famed frescoed ceilings.
Generations of matadors strutted their way across Barcelona's Monumental bullring, drawing roars of approval from the crowds as they tormented the hulking bulls with their scarlet capes before killing them with a sword-thrust between the shoulder blades.
It tackles various instances across three periods in the 20th-century when history has been called on to construct a heroic Persian identity – such as from 1925 to 1941, under the Pahlavi dynasty, when monumental mausoleums drew on ancient forms to honour historic national heroes, while simultaneously using the formal language of modern construction to project into the future.
Three works have been especially commissioned for the exhibition, including a monumental blackboard drawing by celebrated artist Tacita Dean, of Young British Artist fame.
The chronological exhibition of 41 monumental "Installation Drawings" and nearly 30 notebooks, as well as four films, illustrates how Mr. Serra's work has expanded the definition of drawing through innovative techniques, unusual media, monumental scale, and carefully conceived relationships to surrounding architectural spaces.
Last night, he was offering a few works on paper, including a de Kooning drawing, "Monumental Woman" (1953), estimated at $1.5 million to $2 million.
He received state commissions for monumental ecclesiastical paintings; drawn to North Africa, he created sensual Oriental genre scenes; he practiced portraiture; he illustrated the works of Shakespeare and found inspiration in history and the poetry of Byron.
