Available Online » mackintosh http://availableonline.wordpress.com Digitisation in the UK and beyond Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:08:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/178790047d3294dc515d7fd03e526784?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Available Online » mackintosh http://availableonline.wordpress.com Mackintosh Italian Job http://availableonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/mackintosh-italian-job/ http://availableonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/mackintosh-italian-job/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:08:23 +0000 Alastair Dunning http://availableonline.wordpress.com/?p=79 ]]>

A little known sketchbook used by the world famous Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh on a tour of Italy has now been opened up for use online at www.vads.ac.uk/collections/MAC

The sketchbook, which is today held in the Glasgow School of Art archive, was taken by Charles Rennie Mackintosh on his tour of Italy, France and Belgium in 1891 as the recipient of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship.

It provides a unique insight into the architect’s formative years and shows Mackintosh as a young architect with a mind of his own.  Mackintosh ignored the strict stipulations of the grant body which made his trip possible, and instead pursued his desire to learn more about Renaissance architecture.

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