Monday, November 25, 2019

Blue Paper – Italian Drawings – 1550-1600

Paolo Farinati
Minerva and Prometheus
ca. 1560-80
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Bernardino Gatti
Apostle witnessing The Assumption of the Virgin
(study for fresco in Basilica di Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma)
ca. 1560-66
drawing on blue paper
British Museum

Anonymous Artist working in Rome
Drapery Study
ca. 1560-70
drawing on blue paper
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paris Bordone
Two Studies of Women's Arms
before 1571
drawing on blue paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Francesco Morandini
Studies of an Infant's Head (after a cast)
ca. 1572-74
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Jacopo Bassano
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
1574
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Cesare Nebbia
Young Man grasping a Column
ca. 1575
drawing on blue paper
Princeton University Art Museum

Federico Barocci
Head of Bearded Man with eyes closed
ca. 1575-1600
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Agostino Carracci
Kneeling Model
ca. 1582-85
drawing on blue paper
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Luca Cambiaso
Design for Ornament - Volute with Griffin
before 1585
drawing on blue paper
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino
Drapery Study for kneeling Christ in The Agony in the Garden
ca. 1586
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pomponio Amalteo
Musical Putti in Pendentive
before 1588
drawing on blue paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ludovico Carracci
Seated Nude
ca. 1590
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Bartolomeo Cesi
Youth gazing upward in adoration
ca. 1594
drawing on blue paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Annibale Carracci
Torso Study for Ornamental Atlante Figure
(fresco project at Palazzo Farnese, Rome)
ca. 1598
drawing on blue paper
Royal Collection, Great Britain