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| Paolo Farinati Man resting on staff 16th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |
"Disegno is nothing other than divine speculation, which produces an excellent art; you cannot execute anything in sculpture or painting without the guide of this speculation and design." So wrote the Florentine Anton Francesco Doni in 1549. As Campbell and Cole point out in A New History of Italian Renaissance Art (Thames & Hudson, 2012), "such definitions, which prioritized intellectual conception over the description of optical experience, implied an ideal of perfection abstracted from what the eye could perceive in nature."
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| Giovanni Battista Montano Designs for columns 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| attributed to Giovanni Balducci Seated Figure late 16th century drawing British Museum |
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| Giulio Campi Jupiter and Astraea ca. 1545-50 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Girolamo Franco Putti 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Correggio Eve with an Angel ca. 1524-30 drawing British Museum |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Head of a Woman 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Satyr with Bellows standing on a Tortoise 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| style of Luca Cambiaso Marcus Curtius at the Abyss 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Luca Cambiaso Youthful Bacchus 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Luca Cambiaso Scipione and King Syphax ca. 1570 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Agnolo Bronzino Figure Study 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Seated Nude ca. 1565-69 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Study of a Young Woman ca. 1540-42 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art |