Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Viva Roma 1688 etching British Museum |
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Viva Roma 1688 etching British Museum |
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Viva Roma 1688 etching British Museum |
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Viva Roma 1688 etching British Museum |
Ask not ungainly askings of the end
Gods send us, me and thee, Leucothoe;
Nor juggle with the risks of Babylon.
Better to take whatever,
Several, or last, Jove sends us.
– translated by Ezra Pound from an ode of Horace
Louis Jean Desprez Bernini's Colonnade at St. Peter's in Rome completed in 1667 wash drawing British Museum |
Salvator Rosa Portrait of Gianlorenzo Bernini mid-17th century drawing British Museum |
Anonymous printmaker Statue of Bacchus in a landscape ca. 1600-1640 etching British Museum |
Anonymous artst Design for supporting structure as winged putto 17th century wash drawing British Museum |
Anonymous artist Statue group of Pluto abducting Proserpine 17th century wash drawing British Museum |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Nereid riding Dolphin 1640s wash drawing British Museum |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for Catafalque for Muzio Mattei 1668 wash drawing British Museum |
Gianlorenzo Bernini Design for Monument to the duc de Beaufort 17th century wash drawing British Museum |
Benoist Thibout Gianlorenzo Bernini's statue of St Bibiana ca. 1675-1719 engraving British Museum |
Giovanni Battista Bracelli Gianlorenzo Bernini's statue of St Longinus at the Vatican 1640 etching British Museum |
Anonymous printmaker Francesco Mocchi's colossal statue of St Veronica at the Vatican ca. 1630-50 etching British Museum |