Monday, May 20, 2019

Palma Giovane (1548-1628) - Preparatory Drawings

Palma il Giovane
Study for Jael and Sisera, and other studies
ca. 1590-1600
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Palma il Giovane
Study for the Funerary Monument of Girolamo Canal
ca. 1577
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Palma il Giovane
Virgin and Child in Glory with Five Saints
(study for altarpiece)
1605
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Palma il Giovane
Two Doges adoring the Madonna and Child, St Mark, and an Angel
ca. 1623
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Palma il Giovane
Studies of Horsemen, and Study of a Figure for The Deposition
before 1628
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

from Windsor Forest

     The groves of Eden, vanish'd now so long,
Live in description, and look green in song:
These, were my breast inspir'd with equal flame,
Like them in beauty, should be like in fame.
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again,
Not Chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world harmoniously confus'd:
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.

– Alexander Pope (1713)

Palma il Giovane
Studies for St Jerome
ca. 1600
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Palma il Giovane
Studies for St Jerome
ca. 1590-1600
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Palma il Giovane
St Onophrius in the Wilderness
ca. 1610-20
drawing
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Palma il Giovane
Studies for The Annunciation
before 1628
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Palma il Giovane
Figure-studies
ca. 1580-1600
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Palma il Giovane
St Justina of Padua enthroned,
with St James the Less and St John the Baptist

ca. 1600-1605
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Palma il Giovane
Baptism of Christ
1613
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Palma il Giovane
Christ healing the Sick
before 1628
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Palma il Giovane
Allegorical Figure of Venice,
with St John the Evangelist and a Bishop

before 1628
drawing
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut