Friday, July 7, 2023

Italian Study Drawings at the Louvre

Baccio Bandinelli after Michelangelo
Woman Sewing
ca. 1514-15
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Baccio Bandinelli
Young Man with Tablet
ca. 1520-25
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Group of Figures
before 1543
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Camillo Boccaccino
Sheet of Studies
before 1546
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Figure from The Last Judgment
by Michelangelo

16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giulio Campi
Seated Figure with Sheep
before 1572
drawing
(study for fresco)
Musée du Louvre

Niccolò Martinelli (il Trometta)
Winged Genius supporting Garland
ca. 1590
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Allori
Man lifting Sack of Grain
ca. 1595
drawing
(study for tapestry)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Florentine Artist
Descent from the Cross
16th century
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Domenico Fetti
Figure Study
before 1623
drawing
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Palma il Giovane
Sheet of Studies
before 1628
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Guido Reni
Seated Figure sounding Trumpet
before 1642
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Salvator Rosa
Young Man contemplating a Skull
ca. 1647
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Figures on Rocks
before 1680
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Ciro Ferri
Study of a Woman
before 1689
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Battista Pittoni
Figures for a Monument
to Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset

ca. 1706
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Pier Leone Ghezzi
Study of a Woman
before 1755
drawing
Musée du Louvre

from Library

Father's books lying on the living-room floor
Must be divided into threes: art history,
Classical letters and, left from my days here,
Unsteady stacks of quasi-educational lore
That show yellowing Geographic scientists
Perennially lost in rain forest mists. 
An instant choice will cull some from the rest
So they may become mine – a banausic test. 

– Brian Culhane (2008)