Fresco Preparations

Johann Georg Wolcker
Virgin of Sorrows
bestowing the Rosary on the Four Continents
1747
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Joseph Mages
The Marriage of the Virgin
ca. 1765
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
The Virgin in Clouds
ca. 1522-24
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
St Matthew in Clouds
ca. 1520
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Museum, Athens

Charles Meynier
Archangel Michael subduing Satan
1827
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Museum, Athens

Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio Licinio)
Fleeing Youth
ca. 1520-21
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Bernardino Lanino
Two Apostles
ca. 1546-48
drawing
(study for fresco)
Yale University Art Gallery

Pomponio Amalteo
The Flight into Egypt
ca. 1535
drawing
(study for fresco)
Morgan Library, New York

Luca Giordano
Mercury, Pallas and Vulcan arming Hercules
ca. 1696-97
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Annibale Carracci
Ignudo
ca. 1598-99
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Annibale Carracci
Atlante
ca. 1596-98
drawing
(study for fresco)
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

Raphael
Group of Figures
1514
drawing
(study for fresco)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Raphael
Adam
ca. 1509
drawing
(study for fresco)
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe
Gallerie degli Uffizi,Florence

Fra Bartolomeo
Study of Draped Figure
ca. 1499-1500
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone
Glorification of the Cross
ca. 1718
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Paolo Veronese
The Muse of Painting
ca. 1560-65
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Detroit Institute of Arts

 from The Island of Statues

I plucked her backwards by her dress of green,
To question her – oh no, I did not fear,
Because St. Joseph's image hangeth here
Upon my necklace. But the goblin queen
Faded and vanished: nothing now is seen
Saving a green frog dead upon the grass.
As figures moving mirrored in a glass,
The singing shepherds, too, have passed away.
O Arcady, O Arcady, this day
A deal of evil and of change hath crossed
Thy peace.                         

– W.B. Yeats (1885)