Sunday, September 15, 2019

Domenico Beccafumi (1486-1551) - Siena (Drawings)

Domenico Beccafumi
Sheet of Figure Studies (recto)
before 1551
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Domenico Beccafumi
Sheet of Figure Studies (verso)
before 1551
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Domenico Beccafumi
Figure of Abraham
(study for mosaic pavement of Siena Cathedral)
1547
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Domenico Beccafumi
Figure of Swordsman
(study for fresco)
ca.  1530-35
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenico Beccafumi
Gaius Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flame
before 1551
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

"Domenico Beccafumi – With Sodoma, the leading Sienese painter of the late 16th century, although a more intelligent, sensitive and consistent artist.  Labelled a Mannerist, he can now be seen to have assimilated Florentine, Umbrian and Roman influences into a Sienese idiom traceable back to the Gothic art of Duccio.  All of Beccafumi's work, despite internal evolution and change, combines calligraphic line and rhythmic contours with intense colourism.  Probably more than any other artist of his time he exploits contre-jour and lighting effects."

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)

Domenico Beccafumi
Four Evangelists
ca. 1544
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

attributed to Domenico Beccafumi
Half-Length Ornamental Nudes
(study for frieze, mosaic pavement of Siena Cathedral)
ca. 1544
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Domenico Beccafumi
Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1530-35
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenico Beccafumi
Head of an Old Man
ca. 1529-35
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Domenico Beccafumi
Head of a Woman
ca. 1520-30
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Domenico Beccafumi
Head of a Youth
ca. 1520
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenico Beccafumi
Studies of Angels
ca. 1520
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenico Beccafumi
Self-portrait
before 1513
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Domenico Beccafumi
Sheet of Studies
(verso of Self-portrait)
before 1513
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

attributed to Domenico Beccafumi
Descent from the Cross
before 1551
wash drawing
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)