Michelangelo Buonarroti Two Figures lifting a Third ca. 1503-1504 drawing (study for The Battle of Cascina) Musée du Louvre |
Baccio Bandinelli Six Seated Women Conversing ca. 1520 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Giulio Romano Bacchanal ca. 1527 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
Jacopo Bertoia Group of Figures before 1574 drawing Musée du Louvre |
attributed to Maarten van Heemskerck Prison Scene before 1576 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Jacques Bellange Group of Women ca. 1600 drawing (print study) Musée du Louvre |
Adam Elsheimer Two Men and a Woman before 1610 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Adam Elsheimer Three Women and a Child before 1610 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Frans Pourbus the Younger Magistrates of Paris congratulating Louis XIII on his Marriage ca. 1618 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
Michel Corneille the Younger after Giulio Romano Group of Figures ca. 1660 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Salvator Rosa Group of Soldiers before 1673 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Antonio Molinari Group of Figures before 1704 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Gregorio Lazzarini Scene of Plague before 1730 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Francesco Fontebasso Group of Figures before 1769 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Jean-Baptiste Greuze Departure of the Banished Man ca. 1775-80 drawing (study for painting) Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
Dominique Vivant-Denon Street Scene in Naples ca. 1780-85 drawing, with added watercolor Musée du Louvre |
Dear Angry Mob,
Oak Wood Trail is closed to you. We
feel it unnecessary to defend our position,
for we have always thought of ourselves
(and rightly, I venture) as a haven for
those seeking a quiet and solitary
contemplation. We are truly sorry
for the inconvenience.
Signed,
Ranger Lil
PS Ofttimes as the day ends
on a wet bed of yellow leaves
or the sky densens gray and dark
I am brought to imagine
the growing disquiet
in the hearts of my countrymen
– Joshua Beckman (2009)