Thursday, September 5, 2024

Antique Youth

workshop of Jacques-Louis David
Roman Youth with Horse
1824
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Pellegrino Tibaldi
Classical Youth holding a Vessel
ca. 1570
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous German Artist
The Magdalensberg Youth
ca. 1555
bronze
(cast from now-lost Roman original)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Youth with Raised Arm
ca. 1495
bronze
Frick Collection, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Torso of Youth
ca. 1530
marble
(accepted as Roman antiquity until recently)
Yale University Art Gallery

Anonymous Mantuan Artist
Striding Youth
ca. 1500
bronze
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Greek Culture
Dancing Youth
400-350 BC
bronze
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ancient Greek Culture
Kouros
490 BC
bronze
Gallerie Estense, Modena

Ancient Greek Culture
The Bebenburg Youth
3rd century BC
marble
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Ancient Roman Culture
Youth
(The Soranzo Eros)
1st century BC
marble
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso of Youth 
2nd century AD
marble
Princeton University Art Museum

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso of Youth
2nd century AD
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso of Youth
1st century BC - 1st century AD
marble-
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso of Youth
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Art Institute of Chicago

Ancient Roman Culture
Torso of Youth
1st-2nd century AD
marble
(former Chigi Collection, Rome)
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Antinoüs
2nd century AD
marble
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

from An Acre of Grass

Grant me an old man's frenzy.
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call;

A mind Michael Angelo knew
That can pierce the clouds
Or inspired by frenzy
Shake the dead in their shrouds . . .

– W.B. Yeats (1938)