Visconti court artist, c.1390 – Through the Sketchbook

Illuminated letters of the alphabet (with animals and people), from c 1390, with brilliant wash drawings of cheetahs, stags, rabbits, and people, etc., for children and to flourish texts, fill the sketchbooks of Giovannino de Grassi. De Grassi was a Visconti court artist, painter, and sculptor, which allowed him an education, and sources for work.

Wash drawings.

Artist: Giovannino de Grassi. c.1390

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.