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| Daniele Crespi Study of hands ca. 1628-30 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Battista Ricci Study for Martyrdom of St Peter before 1627 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pomarancio Figure-study - lower body of youth before 1626 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guercino Standing youth, seen from the back, holding a bowl ca. 1635-45 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Votive
If you wait long enough a sentence appears.
The how of this is helplessly entangled.
Something must be done about the filthy dark.
Every wick contains a number, the times it may burn.
– Jeffrey Skinner (2007)
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| attributed to Lazzaro Tavarone Allegorical female figure holding branch and dish before 1641 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ottavio Vannini Half-figure, arms behind back before 1644 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco Running figure before 1647 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pietro Novelli Figure and costume studies before 1647 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Simone Cantarini Half-figure of a youth before 1648 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pietro Testa Standing male figure supporting a shield before 1650 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Alastor, or, The Spirit of Solitude
There was a Poet whose untimely tomb
No human hands with pious reverence reared,
But the charmed eddies of autumnal winds
Built o'er his mouldering bones a pyramid
Of mouldering leaves in the waste wilderness –
A lovely youth – no mourning maiden decked
With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath,
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep –
Gentle, and brave, and generous – no lorn bard
Breathed o'er his dark fate one melodious sigh:
He lived, he died, he sung, in solitude.
Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes,
And virgins, as unknown he passed, have pined
And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes.
The fire of those soft orbs has ceased to burn,
And Silence, too enamoured of that voice,
Locks its mute music in her rugged cell.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1815)
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| Baldassare Franceschini Allegorical figure of Purity, with Unicorn 1650 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous artist working in Rome Figure studies mid-17th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Baccio del Bianco Costume designs before 1656 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Baccio del Bianco Design for lavish headdress with plumes before 1656 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |