Saturday, September 10, 2022

Unassigned Italian Figure Drawings at the Louvre - XV

Anonymous Italian Artist
Half-Length Figure Study
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Half-Length Figure Study
17th century
drawing (colored chalks)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Study for Bacchus
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Figure Studies
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Figure Studies
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Sheet of Studies
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Measured Anatomical Studies
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Figure bound to block of stone
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Figure chained to blocks of stone
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
17th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
18th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

from Almost a Figure

What holds the human body in human form?

                I was in Belfast, you were hospitalized &
tested. I kept dreaming of doctors with enormous hands
abusing flowers.
                                And of a sericulture room, dimly lit
                                where the single
                                long filaments of silkworms
                                were drawn from empty cocoons
                                by machines
                                that stretched the limits of death and beauty by
                                necessity.

– Katherine Larson (2006)