Michelangelo Studies for Sistine ceiling - Creation of Adam ca. 1511 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Studies for Sistine ceiling - Hand of God ca. 1511 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
"In the history of art, Livio Odescalchi is only cited as the Roman prince who on 6 January 1692 bought en bloc the famous art collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. In 1789, exactly a century after the queen's death, Livio's descendants sold the collection of drawings to the Teyler Foundation in Haarlem, where it still is. Christina's holdings included 275 paintings and about 2,000 drawings: at his death the prince owned six times more paintings and five times more drawings. . . . An attentive reading of the inventory enables us to isolate the portion that passed to Haarlem and to identify it as the Christina portion. Circumstantial evidence thus confirms the Christina provenance of the Haarlem drawings, which has often been claimed but never proven."
– from an article by Marcel Roethlisberger, The Drawing Collection of Prince Livio Odescalchi, published in Master Drawings, volume 23/24, number 1, 1985/86
Michelangelo Studies for Sistine ceiling ca. 1511 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical studies - legs and arms ca. 1513-20 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical studies - legs ca. 1513-20 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical studies - arms and hands ca. 1513-20 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical studies - arms and shoulders ca. 1513-20 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical study - shoulder ca. 1510-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Anatomical studies - shoulders and neck ca. 1510-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Figure studies for Crucifixion ca. 1530 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Study for figure of Haman ca. 1511-12 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Study of striding model ca. 1527-60 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Standing model from the back ca. 1537-38 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Michelangelo Fragments of figure studies ca. 1535-39 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |