Sunday, January 10, 2016

Italian portrait drawings, 16th-18th centuries

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