Saturday, November 2, 2019

Preparatory Drawings for 17th-century Pictures

follower of Federico Barocci
Figure Study
ca. 1600
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Giovanni Baglione
Studies for Madonna and Child with Saints
ca. 1630
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Baglione
St Lawrence restoring the sight of Lucillus
before 1643
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Baglione
Figures seated around a Table
before 1643
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

But It Says Nothing

But it says nothing. And one is as quiet
as if to say nothing moves me. Then
there is the chair. And one speaks of
the chair sitting at the table.
Scraping against surfaces, opening the mouth.
The object is a piece of thing before. One
shifts in a chair and opens the talk.
And the time it says nothing one moves.
The table is too long as the wall. Not
a thing but it stays and one opens
as a mouth will begin. Speaking of
the table, nothing but to avoid that of
the wall. One could return over and over
to the chair, the wall one is sitting at.
Least ways it says nothing. And the
thing is, it stays still before
speaking of. The object of nothing, even
speech.

– Clark Coolidge (2000)

follower of Francesco Furini
Gesturing Right Arm of a Woman
ca. 1625-46
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Leonardo Scaglia
Sibyl in a Landscape
1640
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Cecco Bravo
Figure looking upward
ca. 1637-38
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Alessandro Maganza
Study for Bound Christ
before 1630
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Matteo Rosselli
The Annunciation
ca. 1623-26
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Battista Spinelli
Figure Studies
(Painter's Boy grinding colors, and Crossbowman)
before 1647
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Marco Boschini
Representatives of the Imitative and Descriptive Arts
before 1680
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
The Angel departing from the Family of Tobit
ca. 1655
drawing (oil on paper)
Art Institute of Chicago

attributed to Ercole Procaccini the Younger
Martyrdom of a Bishop Saint
before 1675
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

attributed to Ercole Procaccini the Younger
Sketches of Putti
before 1675
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago