Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Italian Drawings and Prints, 16th century

Baldassare Peruzzi
Two studies for a chapel
ca. 1521-23
drawing 
British Museum

Headlessnness

The term "headless" is also completely shared by Art and Philosophy. "Headless" does not mean stupid, silly, or without intelligence; "headless" does not mean being ignorant. I am not an ignorant artist  better not be ignorant, as an artist! ... I am and want to be a headless artist. I want to act  always  in headlessness; it's something important to me. I want to make Art in headlessness. "Headlessness" stands for doing my work in a rush and precipitously. Other words for headlessness are restlessness, insisting and insisting again heavily, acceleration, generosity, expenditure, energy (Energy = Yes! Quality = No!), self-transgression, blindness, and excess.

 from Critical Laboratory : The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn (MIT Press, 2013)

Baldassare Peruzzi
Cybele on a an elaborate conveyance drawn by lions
ca. 1513
drawing
British Museum

Baldassare Peruzzi
Roman statue personifying the River Tiber
ca. 1520
drawing
British Museum

Francesco Salviati after Michelangelo
Sculpted figure of Dawn from Medici tomb
ca. 1540
drawing
British Museum

Michelangelo
Study for The Last Judgment
1540
drawing
British Museum

Marcantonioi Raimondi after Michelangelo
Two sons of Noah
16th century
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Bartolomeo Passarotti
Figure studies
1575
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Santi di Tito
Studies of a balding model
ca. 1575
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pellegrino Tibaldi
Aeolus
ca. 1550
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Girolamo Mirola
Young women embracing
ca. 1570-73
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Benedetto Montagna
Young man with rope and palm tree
ca. 1513-15
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sebastiano del Piombo
Four women
ca. 1530
drawing
British Museum

Belisario Corenzio
Battle scene
ca. 1600
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giovanni Andrea Maglioli
Sea monsters
ca. 1580-1610
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford