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He stayed seven years, filling his sketchbook with notations of the land and buildings of Rome and Naples.
"The main motor behind many projects is a quite deep incapacity of understanding," he says as he walks his long thin fingers across the cover of his sketchbook.
By contrast, his depiction, in one sketchbook, of his lover's "pumped-up body in the guise of his own engorged penis" was no more than an example of narcissistic fantasy.One of the main reasons for the long gap between volumes two and three is the daunting costs of research and, not least, copyright and reproduction fees: as Mr Richardson himself once remarked, "I couldn't afford to do it".
The show includes 45 watercolours from Rivera's Moscow sketchbook, a record of his 1927 visit, when he captured celebrations of the Russian revolution's tenth anniversary.
He was a compulsive boulevardier, haunting cafés and bordellos to catch in his sketchbook the chance meetings, assignations and corner solitudes that made the matter of his pictures.
He always travels with a sketchbook.
Dürer's sketchbook of the Netherlands journey contains immensely detailed and realistic drawings.
One extant sketchbook of drawings, from the master mason Villard de Honnecourt, shows a keen sense of observation, a love of mechanical devices, and above all the notion of geometric form that underlay the work, but it gives only tantalizing bits of information about actual building construction.
A sketchbook of 1824 (British Museum), rediscovered in 1956, already shows all the elements of his visionary style: a mystical but precise depiction of nature and an overflowing religious intensity, united by a vivid re-creation of the pastoral conventions.
A sketchbook filled with drawings of such antiquities (now in El Escorial, near Madrid) seems to be the work of a member of his shop.
