Timoteo Viti Woman's profile 16th century Morgan Library |
Timoteo Viti Self-portrait ca. 1520 British Museum |
Portrait drawings made in Italy somewhere between four hundred and five hundred years ago. Today, these faces on paper seldom emerge from the acid-free containers that surround and protect them within their chilly, dark, dust-free, humidity-controlled vaults.
attributed to Alessandro Allori Portrait drawing of a woman 16th century Morgan Library |
Federico Barocci Study of woman's head 17th century Morgan Library |
Bartolomeo Passerotti Head of a young man 1560s Prado |
Bartolomeo Passerotti Head of a bearded man 16th century British Museum |
Agnolo Bronzino Head of a young man 16th century Getty |
Agnolo Bronzino Head of a young man ca. 1545-55 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Bernardino Campi Head, seen from above 16th century Morgan Library |
attributed to Domenico Cresti Head of a woman 16th century Morgan Library |
Sebastiano del Piombo Old woman 16th century Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Aniello Falcone Portrait of Masaniello 17th century Morgan Library |
Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Woman with veil 16th century Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Gaetano Gandolfi Portrait of the artist's daughter, Marta 18th century Morgan Library |