Thursday, October 24, 2019

Human Figure (Draped) in Seicento Drawings

Il Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi)
Kneeling Female Figure (drapery study)
ca. 1607-1613
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pietro Bernardi
Draped Man leaning forward
before 1623
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Kneeling Figure viewed from the back
before 1625
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Il Pomarancio (Niccolò Circignani)
Study for Youth raised from the Dead
before 1629
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Bartolomeo Cesi
A Miraculous Cure
before 1629
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Carlo Bononi
Standing Figure (drapery study)
before 1630
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Ortensio Crespi
Seated Figure (drapery study)
before 1631
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Daniele Crespi
Kneeling Woman in a Cloak (drapery study)
before 1630
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

from Magdalen

The doctor says that I shall die.
It may be so, yet what care I?
Endless reposing from the strife?
Death do I trust no more than life.
For one thing is like one arrayed,
And there is neither false nor true;
But in a hideous masquerade
All things dance on, the ages through.
And good is evil, evil good;
Nothing is known or understood
Save only Pain. I have no faith
In God, or Devil, Life or Death.

– Amy Levy (1884)

Lazzaro Tavarone
Pair of Draped Figures
before 1641
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Lanfranco
Study of Seated Woman looking up 
ca. 1640-44
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco
Youth wearing a Cloak (drapery study)
before 1647
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Baldassare Franceschini
Standing Draped Female Figure
before 1690
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Luca Giordano
Evangelist looking upward
late 17th century
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Carlo Maratti
Standing Figure (drapery study)
late 17th century
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art