Palma Giovane (1548-1628) - Figures in Motion

Palma il Giovane
Three Flying Angels
ca. 1587-94
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Palma il Giovane
Flying Angel
ca. 1580-90
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Palma il Giovane
Fame sounding a Trumpet
1611
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Palma il Giovane
God the Father with Two Angels
ca. 1580-1620
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Palma il Giovane
The Annunciation
ca. 1580
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Palma il Giovane
Sheet of Studies with The Annunciation
ca. 1610
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

attributed to Palma il Giovane
The Harrowing of Hell
before 1628
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

from Amoretti

Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day,
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:
And having harrow'd hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win:
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin
And grant that we for whom thou diddest die,
Being with thy dear blood clean wash'd from sin,
May live for ever in felicity.
And that thy love we weighing worthily,
May likewise love thee for the same again:
And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy,
With love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear love, like as we ought,
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

– Edmund Spenser (1595)

Palma il Giovane
Christ in Limbo
ca. 1625-28
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Palma il Giovane
Martyrdom of St Lawrence
ca. 1611
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Palma il Giovane
Male Figures writhing on the Ground
before 1628
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Palma il Giovane
The Flagellation
ca. 1602
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Palma il Giovane
Studies for Cain slaying Abel
before 1628
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Palma il Giovane
Sheet of Studies for a painting in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice
ca. 1578
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Palma il Giovane
Sheet of Figure-studies
before 1628
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York