Thursday, September 22, 2022

Secular Representations (Unassigned Italian Drawings)

Anonymous Italian Artist
Duke of Milan slain by a Husband avenging his Wife
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Forest Scene with Soldier slaying a Woman
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Two Women burying another Woman
ca. 1550-1600
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Group surrounding a swooning Woman
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

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

Anonymous Italian Artist
Group of Figures
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Man selling Female Slave to another Man
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Satanic Figure
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Sleeping Boy
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Sleeping Shepherd
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Sleeping Shepherd
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Courtly Scene with Apparition
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Woman playing a Lute
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Bacchanal
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Battle Scene on a Bridge
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Of Not Communicating One's Glory

One has some glory – brutal and rough, a kind of encounter
Fame is not pursuant

The splendid enterprise, peerage, and trench –
Let us consider that flourish

I had a friend who gloried, this seemed invisible to some
He broke apart his face, he promoted

"That was abandoning reputation to cover up shame"
As evening borrows its tickle from sun

And from retrospect, with alarm
"I don't know anyone has got clean rid of it"

– Hannah Brooks-Motl (2015)