Sunday, May 5, 2024

Sixteenth-Century Heads

Andrea del Sarto
St John the Baptist
ca. 1523
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pietro Faccini
Head
ca. 1590
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Anonymous Artist
Head of a Youth wearing a Turban
16th century
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Heinrich Aldegrever
Head of a Man
ca. 1540
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Artist
Head of Christ
ca. 1500-1550
alabaster
Saint Louis Art Museum

Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of a Clergyman
1516
oil on vellum
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Léonard Thiry after Rosso Fiorentino
Masked Man
with Feminine Mask on the Back of the Head

ca. 1545-59
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Pseudo Pacchia
Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1530
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Head of a Bearded Man
16th century
drawing
(purchased by J.P. Morgan as by Correggio)
Morgan Library, New York

Domenico Campagnola
Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1540
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Domenico Campagnola
Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1540
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Head of a Young Man
16th century
drawing
(purchased by J.P. Morgan as by Francesco Salviati)
Morgan Library, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
(after Andrea del Sarto)
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1530
drawing
(copy of figure from painting)
Morgan Library, New York

Étienne Dumonstier
Portrait Study of a Man
ca. 1580
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1539-40
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

attributed to Battista Franco
Head of an Old Man
ca. 1550
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

To a Child Dancing upon the Shore

Dance there upon the shore.
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet.
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won.
And he, the best warrior, dead
And all the sheaves to bind!
What need that you should dread
The monstrous crying of wind?

– William Butler Yeats (1912)