Carmen Bambach on Leonardo da Vinci | New York Studio School

Selections from the Archives: Carmen Bambach "The Language of Drawing in Leonardo's Late Work," recorded on November 7, 2001.
Carmen C. Bambach (BA, MA, and PhD, Yale University; fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences) is Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a specialist in Italian art and has authored eighty scholarly articles and ten exhibition catalogues, including the award-winning Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer (2017), The Drawings of Bronzino (2010), An Italian Journey (2010), Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (2003), Correggio and Parmigianino (2000), and The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle (1997). Other books include her award-winning Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (4 vols., Yale University Press, 2019); Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Una eredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (Florence, 2009).
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