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Raphael Three Graces c. 1517-18 |
Italian drawings from the Royal Collection could easily dominate this rolling screen in daily doses for the entire bulky remainder of 2015 – if I only would permit them to.
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Bartolomeo Passerotti Three Nudes c. 1580 |
Instead, they must alternate out for a while (before they can alternate in again). Because other kinds of ideas and other kinds of images also deserve a chance to make marks of their own (even though no other ideas or images ever can compel the attention as urgently as these).
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Parmigianino Horse c. 1530 |
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Jacopo Bertola Horses c. 1570 |
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Parmigianino Profiles c. 1525 |
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Parmigianino Women & Children c. 1535 |
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Prospero Fontana Virtue Subduing Fortune 1553 |
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Francesco Borromini Design for Solomonic Column 1625 |
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Pier Francesco Mola Man Gazing c. 1630 |
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Pier Francesco Mola Bacchus & Ariadne c. 1647 |
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Giulio Romano Design for Ceiling Fresco, Mantua c. 1536 |
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attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio Woman with Putti c. 1540 |
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Guido Reni Drapery Study c. 1620 |
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Pietro Santi Bartoli Study of ancient Roman wall painting c. 1675 |
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Sassoferrato Judith with the Head of Holophernes c. 1635 |
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Pietro Testa Midas c. 1650 |