Between light and shade – the present and future of the collection of old lithography of FBAUL

Abstract

The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBAUL) holds a Collection of Lithographs, dated between 1840 and 1911, related to the memory of teaching Drawing in the nineteenth century. Lithographs after works of Italian Old Masters like Raphael Sanzio and Pompeo Batoni, respectively, Drawing Courses of French artists of the second half of the nineteenth century like Charles Bargue, Auguste Allongé among others, relate this Collection with its European counterpart of the nineteenth century. The FBAUL Virtual Print Room is a bilingual (Portuguese/English) website project to enable users in future to have access to the Inventory and Knowledge of the Collection and build connections with other Archives worldwide.