Sunday, March 27, 2016

European Art at the Getty Museum, 16th century

Jacob de Backer
Paris admitted to the bedchamber of Helen
ca. 1585-90
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

What care I though the world reprove
My bold, my over-daring love:
Ignoble minds themselves exempt
From interest in a brave attempt.

The eagle soaring to behold
The sun arrayed in flames of gold
Regards not though she burns her wings,
Since that rich sight such pleasure brings.

So feel I now my smiling thought
To such a resolution brought
That it contemns all grief and smart,
Since I so high have placed my heart.

And if I die, some worthy spirits
To future times shall sing my merits,
That easily did my life despise,
Yet ne'er forsook my enterprise.

Then shine, bright sun, and let me see
The glory of they majesty:
I wish to die, so I may have
Thy look my death, thine eye my grave.

 Anonymous, 1671

Georg Pencz
Allegory of Justice
1533
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Wolf Huber
Paul on the road to Damascus (Conversion of Paul)
1531
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Toussaint Dubreuil
Warrior
ca. 1589-1602
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Paolo Veronese
Portrait of a man
ca. 1576-78
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Baldassare Peruzzi
Odysseus & the daughters of Lycomedes
ca. 1520
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jan Harmensz. Muller
Mercury embracing the nymph Lara
ca. 1588-94
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Flemish painter
Landscape with Mercury & Argus
ca. 1570
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Andrea del Sarto
Figures behind a balustrade
1522
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Andrea del Sarto
Study of kneeling figure
ca. 1522-26
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Francesco Primaticcio
Costume study of Centaur & Lapith
ca. 1540
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Francesco Primaticcio
Vulcan at his Forge
ca. 1550
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Dosso Dossi
St George & the Dragon
ca. 1513-15
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Dosso Dossi
Allegory of Fortune
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles