Early Antique Studies by Jacque Andrue-Duserseau: on the Part of Antiquity in the Masters Creative Formation
The article deals with the architectural drawings and prints of antic subjects by the French master Jacque Andrue-Duserseau the Elder executed by him in the 1530s-early 1540s. That may fi ll a certain gap in the study of that master in the foreign research due to a mistake in his birth date. Besides some concrete questions - attributions of his drawings, their sources, their place in the formation of his views and methods - the article raises a number of general problems of Renaissance graphic art, particularly antic studies. The author goes beyond the cultural situation in France of the second quarter of the XVI century, but reveals Duserseaus wide European links and touches on the development of Romes art milieu in the 1530s after the so-called sacco de Roma in 1527.