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Recreation of the lost sketchbook of the Dutch artist with ancient sculptures and ruins, the admired art of Michelangelo and Raphael, and Roman cityscapes.

Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook that he filled with motifs as he wandered through the city, and whose original binding has been lost. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett ha

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Recreation of the lost sketchbook of the Dutch artist with ancient sculptures and ruins, the admired art of Michelangelo and Raphael, and Roman cityscapes.

Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook that he filled with motifs as he wandered through the city, and whose original binding has been lost. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett ha

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