attributed to Giampietrino Head of young woman ca. 1500-1520 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Fra Bartolomeo Classically-draped female figure with torch c1500-1515 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
"Hearing much of the noble works made in Rome by Michelangelo, and likewise those of the gracious Raffaello, and being roused by the fame, which was continually reaching him, of the marvels wrought by those two divine craftsmen, with leave from his Prior, he [Fra Bartolomeo] betook himself to Rome. There he was entertained by Fra Mariano Fetti, Friar of the Piombo, for whom he painted two pictures of S. Peter and S. Paul at his Convent of S. Silvestro a Monte Cavallo. But since he did not succeed in working as well in the air of Rome as he had done in that of Florence, while the vast number of works that he saw, what with the ancient and the modern, bewildered him so that much of the ability and excellence that he believed himself to possess fell away from him, he determined to depart, leaving Raffaello the charge of finishing one of those pictures, that of S. Peter, which he had not completed; which picture was retouched all over by the hand of the marvelous Raffaello, and given to Fra Mariano. Thus, then, Fra Bartolomeo returned to Florence."
– from the Life of Fra Bartolomeo di San Marco (Baccio della Porta) by Giorgio Vasari, from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1564), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)
Leonardo da Vinci Head of Leda ca. 1504-1506 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Michelangelo Head of a young woman ca. 1540 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Parmigianino Self-portrait ca. 1524 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Raphael Study for The Transfiguration ca. 1519-20 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Raphael Putto with attributes of Vulcan 1518 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Raphael Study for Hebe and Proserpine ca. 1518 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Raphael Herm with raised left arm ca. 1517-18 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Raphael Heads of two Apostles ca. 1503 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Raphael Allegorical figure of poetry ca. 1509-1510 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Raphael Joshua addressing the Israelites at Schechem ca. 1516-18 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Raphael Study of outstretched arm ca. 1516 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
school of Raphael Design for statue of the Prophet Jonah ca. 1520-23 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |