Saturday, April 22, 2023

Disposing Figure Groups within the Rectangle - I

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Two Figures lifting a Third
ca. 1503-1504
drawing
(study for The Battle of Cascina)
Musée du Louvre

Baccio Bandinelli
Six Seated Women Conversing
ca. 1520
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giulio Romano
Bacchanal
ca. 1527
drawing
(study for fresco)
Musée du Louvre

Jacopo Bertoia
Group of Figures
before 1574
drawing
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Maarten van Heemskerck
Prison Scene
before 1576
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jacques Bellange
Group of Women
ca. 1600
drawing
(print study)
Musée du Louvre

Adam Elsheimer
Two Men and a Woman
before 1610
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Adam Elsheimer
Three Women and a Child
before 1610
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Frans Pourbus the Younger
Magistrates of Paris congratulating Louis XIII on his Marriage
ca. 1618
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

Michel Corneille the Younger after Giulio Romano
Group of Figures
ca. 1660
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Salvator Rosa
Group of Soldiers
before 1673
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Antonio Molinari
Group of Figures
before 1704
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Gregorio Lazzarini
Scene of Plague
before 1730
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Fontebasso
Group of Figures
before 1769
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Departure of the Banished Man
ca. 1775-80
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Dominique Vivant-Denon
Street Scene in Naples
ca. 1780-85
drawing, with added watercolor
Musée du Louvre

Dear Angry Mob,

Oak Wood Trail is closed to you. We
feel it unnecessary to defend our position,
for we have always thought of ourselves
(and rightly, I venture) as a haven for
those seeking a quiet and solitary
contemplation. We are truly sorry
for the inconvenience.

Signed,

                                  Ranger Lil

PS             Ofttimes as the day ends
                       on a wet bed of yellow leaves
                             or the sky densens gray and dark
                  I am brought to imagine
                       the growing disquiet
                              in the hearts of my countrymen

– Joshua Beckman (2009)