Saturday, September 14, 2019

Sodoma (1477-1549) - Study Drawings

Sodoma
Bearded Man
ca. 1530
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sodoma
Head of a Man
(verso of Bearded Man)
ca. 1530
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sodoma
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1535
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Sodoma
Resurrection
(verso of Christ carrying the Cross)
ca. 1535
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Sodoma
St George killing the Dragon
ca. 1518
drawing
British Museum

Sodoma
Study of an Old Man
ca. 1518
drawing
British Museum

Sodoma
Study of Standing Figure
ca. 1510
drawing
private collection

Sonnet

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart,
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is best painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill,
To find where your true image pictured lies,
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazèd with thine eyes:
Now see what good-turns eyes for eyes have done,
Mine eyes have drawn they shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee.
     Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
     They draw but what they see, know not the heart.

– William Shakespeare (published 1609)

Sodoma
Penitent St Jerome
before 1549
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Sodoma
Study of Figure holding Cup and Jug
before 1549
drawing
British Museum 

attributed to Sodoma
Head of a Woman
before 1549
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

attributed to Sodoma
Head of a Veiled Woman
before 1549
drawing
private collection

Sodoma
Head of a Nun
before 1549
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles

Sodoma
Head of the Virgin
before 1549
drawing
private collection

follower of Sodoma
St Sebastian
ca. 1510-1550
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York