Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Mythological Representations (Unassigned Italian Drawings)

Anonymous Italian Artist
Midas judging between Apollo and Marsyas
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Battle of Tritons
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
The Four Elements
represented by Pagan Divinities

ca. 1550-1600
drawing, with watercolor
(design for ceiling fresco)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Prometheus
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Prometheus
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Group of Goddesses
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Mercury, Venus, Cupid and Pan
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Polyphemus deceived by Ulysses and his Companions
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist after Raphael
Jupiter embracing Cupid
16th century
drawing
(copy of lost Raphael drawing)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Sleeping Venus observed by Passersby
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Study of Antique Relief Group - Triton and Nereid
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Study of Antique Statue Group - Pasquino
18th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
The Three Graces
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Venus and Cupid
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Papulæ (Order I.)

      Genus II. Lichen.

On a scale of Lustrous to Sockeye,
Fishscale to Fire-Dot. Not Ichthyosis:
Lichen. Fruiting bodies in a calcareous
spot. Goldspeck. Blushing.                

O the diffuse eruption of dazzling papulæ!

Usher the Wild Lichen. Usher spring
and the furfuraceous scurf recurs. 
The Brain-Scaled (the hairline cracked).
The Blue-Blistered, the Earth-Wrinkled.

Neither Strophulus nor stoppable.
Like wildfire rash the crustose rush
of successive crops. Tundra Sulphur,
circumpolar, the snowy excoriations.

So squats the Dog Lichen, the Freckle Pelt.
Cobblestoned, chronic, the not contagious.

– Sylvia Legris (2016)