Thursday, June 13, 2019

Italian Figures and Faces (Drawings) - 16th century

Amico Aspertini
Draped Figure, from the back
ca. 1500-1520
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Vincenzo Tamagni
Studies of Three Standing Male Figures
ca. 1507-1529
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Girolamo Savoldo
Head of a Man
ca. 1520-30
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Domenico Beccafumi
Half-length Figure-study, from the back
ca. 1529-31
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous Italian Artist
Gesturing Figure with Cloak
16th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

from Hinge Picture

hearing our oars where their freed goatsteps sped
and are silent
by an extinct river
O Babylon when I lay down
alert for sliding cataracts
where in corridors the print of dancing feet
beyond poise I am prey
posing in snow-light
being of human form
clothed in the scales of a fish

– Susan Howe (Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979)

attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi
Man on Horseback
before 1536
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Camillo Boccaccino
Head of an Old Man
before 1546
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Girolamo Romanino
Two Women seated in Conversation
before 1559
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
Four Studies of Torsos
ca. 1570-80
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Agnolo Bronzino
Study of Standing Man leaning against a piece of Carved Furniture
before 1572
drawing
British Museum

Giulio Clovio
Studies of Heads
before 1578
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Lelio Orsi
Figure Personifying Envy or Fury
before 1587
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Carracci School (Bologna)
Study of Young Woman
ca. 1590
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Aurelio Luini
Figure-studies
before 1593
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain