Friday, December 4, 2020

Costume Details - Preserved or Invented by Painters

workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio
Tobias and the Angel (detail)
ca. 1470-75
tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

Piero della Francesca
St Michael Archangel (detail)
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

Vincenzo Foppa
Adoration of the Magi (detail)
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Sebastiano del Piombo
Portrait of a Young Roman Woman (detail)
ca. 1512
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Bernard van Orley
The Virtue of Patience (detail)
1521
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

attributed to Alessandro Allori
Portrait of Francesco de' Medici (detail)
ca. 1560
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Giambattista Moroni
The Lawyer (detail)
ca. 1570
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

George Gower
Portrait of Lady Philippa Coningsby (detail)
1578
oil on panel
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of Doge Niccolò da Ponte (detail)
ca. 1580
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

Orazio Gentileschi
Young Woman playing a Violin - St Cecilia (detail)
ca. 1612
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Cecco del Caravaggio
The Resurrection (detail)
ca. 1619-20
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

from Auspices

What future, though, in that simplicity?
If the observer alters what's observed,
Simple to see
The brilliant creatures may not long survive
Our scrutiny. And yet, what would be served
By aeons of extravagance to be
Merely alive,

Without the knowing eye, though its regard
Should bring to light what turns the world to stone?
Does the same hard
Attention that we boast of here abound,
Or has it been and gone among the starred
Immenseness – meaning we must fare alone,
Lost where we're found?

– Steven Edgar (2009)

Nicolas de Largillière
Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort (detail)
ca. 1730
oil on canvas
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris

Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of Edward Dering (detail)
ca. 1758-59
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Giandomenico Tiepolo
A Philosopher (detail)
ca. 1758-64
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of Mrs Jens Wolff (detail)
ca. 1803-1815
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago