Friday, March 24, 2017

Bust Portraits

Bust of an Athlete
Roman Empire
early 1st century AD
marble
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Bust of an Athlete
Roman Empire
2nd century AD
marble
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

from Canto LXXX 

La beauté, "Beauty is difficult, Yeats" said Aubrey Beardsley
        when Yeats asked why he drew horrors
        or at least not Burne-Jones
        and Beardsley knew he was dying and had to
        make his hit quickly

hence no more B-J in his product.

        So very difficult, Yeats, beauty so difficult.

 Ezra Pound

Bust of a Young Man
Roman Empire
AD 140-150
marble
British Museum

Bust of a Man wearing Toga
Roman Empire
AD 240-250
marble
British Museum

Jacopo della Quercia
Bust of a Young Woman
ca. 1400-1440
painted stucco
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

after Andrea del Verrocchio
Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici
ca. 1478-1521
painted terracotta
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Desiderio da Settignano
Bust of St John the Baptist
ca. 1490
painted terracotta
National Gallery Art, Washington DC

Vincenzo Onofri
Bust of a Man in Armor
ca. 1500
painted terracotta
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Alessandro Vittoria
Bust of a Lady of the Zorzi Family of Venice
ca. 1570-80
terracotta
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

David Le Marchand
Bust of Sir Isaac Newton
1718
ivory
British Museum

Louis-François Roubiliac
Bust of Lord Chesterfield
1740s
plaster
British Museum

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
Bust of the Comtesse de Feuquières,
daughter of the painter Pierre Mignard
ca. 1738
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Aimé-Jules Dalou
Bust of Eugénie Maria Wynne
1875
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Naum Lvovich Aronson
Bust of Beethoven
1905
plaster
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg