Monday, November 25, 2019

Blue Paper – Italian Drawings – 1500-1550

Biagio Pupini
Group of Figures, with Reclining Male Nude
early 16th century
drawing on blue paper
Harvard Art Museums

Palma il Vecchio
Self Portrait
ca. 1510
drawing on blue paper
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Bartolomeo Montagna
Study for Christ Enthroned
ca. 1520
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Betrayal of Christ
(design for carved crystal)
ca. 1524
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pordenone
The Continence of Scipio
ca. 1530-35
drawing on blue paper
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Pordenone
The Annunciation
(study for altarpiece)
ca. 1537
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pordenone
St Sebastian
before 1539
drawing on blue paper
Harvard Art Museums

Domenico Campagnola
Temple of Vesta, Rome
ca. 1530-50
drawing on blue paper
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Parmigianino
Draped Female Figure
before 1540
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Niccolò dell'Abate
Seated Saint
ca. 1540-50
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Perino del Vaga
Solon giving Laws to the Athenians
(study for monochrome fresco in the Vatican)
ca. 1541
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Marcello Fogolino
Head of a Young Woman
before 1548
drawing on blue-washed paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michelangelo Anselmi
Young David playing a Harp
ca. 1548-50
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacopo Tintoretto
Bust of Vitellius
ca. 1550
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Jacopo Tintoretto after Michelangelo
Il Giorno
(Statue from the Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence)
ca. 1550
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York