ITALIAN DRAWINGS AT THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO:
NEW ACQUISITIONS
Thursday, December 10 | 6:30 PM
Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT
710 Sansome Street, San Francisco
Under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco
Event open to the public | Registration required
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Spanning the Renaissance, Baroque and Modern eras, and featuring artists like Annibale Carracci, Lorenzo Tiepolo, and Domenico Gnoli, this presentation highlights a number of important and recent acquisitions of Italian drawings pursued by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco‘s Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the largest collection of works on paper in the Western United States.
FURIO RINALDI
Dr. Furio Rinaldi is Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the department of prints, drawings, photographs and artists’ books of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the largest collection of works on paper in Western United States. An expert on 15th- and 16th-century Renaissance drawings, particularly the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, he has published extensively on the subject. At FAMSF, he organized the exhibitions Color into Line: Pastel from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022), Tamara de Lempicka (2024-2025) and the critically acclaimed Botticelli Drawings (2023-24), the catalogue of which has been named among the best art books of the year by The New York Times. In 2022 he was appointed David and Julie Tobey Fellow of Italian Drawings at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Image: Lorenzo Tiepolo (Italian, 1736–1776)
Head of a Youth with His Hand Covering His Face, ca. 1760
Black and red chalk on white paper (recto); black chalk (verso), 38 x 28 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, gift of Roger Thomas and Arthur Libera, gift of James E. Mays Jr., Ira Kurlander, and Andrew Guest, and gift of Patricia Nagy Olsen (2026.24)