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| Andrea del Sarto Figures behind balustrade 1522 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, helas, I may no more.
The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore
Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I may spend his time in vain.
And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written her fair neck round about:
'Noli me tangere for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold though I seem tame.'
– Sir Thomas Wyatt (ca. 1503-1542)
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| Andrea del Sarto Drapery study ca. 1517 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Perino del Vaga Study for St Sebastian ca. 1511-34 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amseterdam |
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| Perino del Vaga Vertumnus and Pomona ca. 1527-28 drawing British Museum |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Christ at the Last Judgment ca. 1550-55 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Federico Zuccaro Statue of General standing in niche ca. 1565-75 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Right well I wote most mighty Soveraine,
That all this famous antique history
Of some th'abundance of an idle braine
Will judged be, and painted forgery,
Rather than matter of just memory,
Sith none, that breatheth living air, does know,
Where is that happy land of Faery,
Which I so much do vaunt, yet no where show,
But vouch antiquities, which no body can know.
– Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599)
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| Federico Barocci St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1560 drawing British Museum |
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| Federico Barocci St Francis receiving stigmata in a landscape 1570s drawing British Museum |
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| Lorenzo Sabbatini Sibyl seated on clouds with tablet before 1576 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Marco Marchetti Seated women and putto for frieze design before 1588 drawing British Museum |
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| Marco Marchetti Grotesque design with Neptune below, Jupiter above before 1588 drawing British Museum |
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| Bernardino Campi St Sebastian and Roman soldier before 1584 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Bernardino Campi Standing man, from behind ca. 1570 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| attributed to Antonio Campi Sibyl reading before 1591 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Virtue's branches wither, virtue pines,
O pity, pity, and alack the time!
Vice doth flourish, vice in glory shines,
Her gilded boughs above the cedar climb.
Vice hath golden cheeks, O pity, pity!
She in every land doth monarchize.
Virtue is exiled from every city,
Virtue is a fool, vice only wise.
O pity, pity! virtue weeping dies.
Vice laughs to see her faint, alack the time!
This sinks; with painted wings the other flies.
Alack, that best should fall, and bad should climb!
O pity, pity, pity! mourn, not sing!
Vice is a saint, virtue her underling.
Vice doth flourish, vice in glory shines,
Virtue's branches wither, virtue pines.
– Thomas Dekker (ca. 1570-ca. 1632)