Friday, January 2, 2015

Imports

Raphael
Three Graces
c. 1517-18


Italian drawings from the Royal Collection could easily dominate this rolling screen in daily doses for the entire bulky remainder of 2015  if I only would permit them to.

Bartolomeo Passerotti
Three Nudes
c. 1580

Instead, they must alternate out for a while (before they can alternate in again). Because other kinds of ideas and other kinds of images also deserve a chance to make marks of their own (even though no other ideas or images ever can compel the attention as urgently as these).

Parmigianino
Horse
c. 1530

Jacopo Bertola
Horses
c. 1570


Parmigianino
Profiles
c. 1525


Parmigianino
Women & Children
c. 1535

Prospero Fontana
Virtue Subduing  Fortune
1553

Francesco Borromini
Design for Solomonic Column
1625

Pier Francesco Mola
Man Gazing
c. 1630

Pier Francesco Mola
Bacchus & Ariadne
c. 1647

Giulio Romano
Design for Ceiling Fresco, Mantua
c. 1536

attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio
Woman with Putti
c. 1540

Guido Reni
Drapery Study
c. 1620

Pietro Santi Bartoli
Study of ancient Roman wall painting
c. 1675

Sassoferrato
Judith with the Head of Holophernes
c. 1635

Pietro Testa
Midas
c. 1650