Drapé

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon keeps an exceptional drawing by Albrecht Dürer studying a piece of drapery. This meticulous study reveals how the suppleness of a fabric lends itself to an infinity of folds, underlined by the play of shadows and lights. How is a drapery set up? Why does this motif continue to this day? How to explain its power of fascination? These are the questions that this book intends to answer. The reader is invited to enter the workshops of the most remarkable artists, such as Nicolas Poussin, Gustave Moreau or Ingres, to enter the "fabric" of drapery and to be as close as…