PhD Candidate in Art History, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Behind Abstraction: Cy Twombly and the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
On February 3rd, 2026, Ricciardi Winner Giovanni Lusi presented his research on Cy Twombly at the Master Drawings Annual Symposium, New York.
Watch the 2026 Master Drawings Symposium.
Angelo Antonio Faraci
Ph.D. candidate in Artistic Practices and Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo
Moore Curatorial Fellow, The Morgan Library & Museum
A Pinch of Smalt: The Matter of Iridescence in a Seventeenth-Century Drawing of a Blue Beetle
Watch the 2025 Master Drawings Symposium on February 4, 2025 where 2025 Ricciardi Winner Olivia Dill presents her research on her astounding findings regarding the iridescence in a seventeenth-century drawing of a blue beetle. 2024 finalist Tamara Kobel delves into the fascinating world of Swiss artist Wilhelm Stettler and his “Eyerstock.”
Femke Speelberg
Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lorenz Lechler’s Design for a Sacrament House: A Tour de Force of Late-Gothic Architectural Draftsmanship
Elisa Spataro
Postdoctoral fellow at Sapienza, Università di Roma
Gaspare Celio and His Album of Roman Copy Drawings for Hendrik Goltzius
Formerly the Moore Curatorial Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum (2020-22)
Giambattista Tiepolo’s “Scalzi Style” Reconsidered: Newly Proposed Connections for the Würzburg Residenz and the Church of the Pietà
Tom Nevile
Head of Research at Day & Faber, London
Tamara Kobel
PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of Bern, Switzerland
Watch the 2024 Master Drawings New York Symposium on January 30, 2024 where 2023 finalist Luming Guan presents her research on Martin Schongauer, 2024 finalist Tom Nevile gives a talk on Robert van den Hoecke and the 2024 Ricciardi prize winner Ian Hicks discusses his ground-breaking reconsideration of a group of drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo in conversation with the Morgan Library & Museum’s head of drawings and prints, John Marciari.
PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
A Trove of Newly Discovered Drawings by Carême de Fécamp
Published in Master Drawings Volume 61, Issue 1
Watch Ms. Goldring present her research at the 2023 Master Drawings New York Symposium
https://masterdrawings.org/seventh-annual-master-drawings-symposium/
Luming Guan
PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Scenic Designer, Vienna, Austria
Copy or Coincidence? Pietro Righini and the Bibiena Legacy
Published in Master Drawings Volume 60, Issue 2
Watch Mr. McCargar present his research at the 2023 Master Drawings New York Symposium
https://masterdrawings.org/seventh-annual-master-drawings-symposium/
Getty Paper Project Fellow, Courtauld Gallery, London
Jan Verbeek, a Mechelen Draftsman from the Time of Bruegel
Published in Master Drawings Volume 59, Issue 2
Watch Mr. Bassens present his research at the 2021 Master Drawings New York Symposium
Marcello Calogero
PhD candidate, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Samuel H. Kress pre-doctoral Fellow, Drawings Institute, New York
Drawing Tradition: Malvasia, Alfonso Lombardi and the Use of Models in Bologna
Konstantinos Gravanis
PhD candidate, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, England
Raphael’s Preparatory Drawing of the Great Countess Matilda and the Original Dado in the Stanza dell’Incendio
Laurence Schmidlin
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
One might say drawn’: Three-dimensional Drawing, Linear Sculpture, and the Concept of Graphic Capacity
Curator of Drawings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Copying Gainsborough: Paul Sandby, Sharing, Sociability and Self-Fashioning
Published in Master Drawings Volume 58, Issue 2
Watch Ms. Razall present her research at the 2020 Master Drawings New York Symposium
https://masterdrawings.org/watch-the-2020-symposium-then-and-now/
Marco Simone Bolzoni
Curator of Old Master and 19th-century Drawings of the Leon and Debra Black collection, New York
Rome Looking at Venice: Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro and the Artistic Debate on Colorito and Disegno
Maud van Suylen
Junior Curator of Drawings at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Drawings of Interiors by Thomas Wijck
PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
A Verrocchio Sculpture as a Source for Leonardo and Raphael: The Evidence of Drawings
Published in Master Drawings Volume 57, Issue 1
https://masterdrawings.org/issue/spring-2019/
Watch Ms. Eisenberg present her research at the 2019 Master Drawings New York Symposium
https://masterdrawings.org/watch-the-2019-symposium-master-drawings-the-next-generation/
Elizabeth Bernick
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Drawing Connections: New Discoveries Regarding Cesare da Sesto’s Sketchbook
Francesco Guzzetti
Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Morgan Library & Museum
Writing with the Left Hand is Drawing”: Alighiero Boetti, 1969–70
Rosie Razzall
Curator of Drawings, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands
What Lies Beneath”: Infrared Reflectance Imaging of Canaletto’s Drawings
Sarah Vowles
Hamish Swanston Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
New Light on Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar
