Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Picasso - Bandinelli - Beccafumi - Savery

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman
1971
pastel on board
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Pablo Picasso
La Soupe
1903
oil on canvas
(originally owned by Gertrude Stein)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Pablo Picasso
Harlequin
1923
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Pablo Picasso
Two Figures
ca. 1921
oil on canvas
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Baccio Bandinelli
Head and Arm
ca. 1526-30
drawing
(study for sculpture)
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

Baccio Bandinelli
Youth with Staff
ca. 1519-20
drawing
(study for painting, Massacre of the Innocents)
British Museum

Baccio Bandinelli
Group of Figures
ca. 1520-30
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Baccio Bandinelli
Self Portrait
ca. 1545
oil on panel
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Domenico Beccafumi
Adoration of the Shepherds
ca. 1545-50
oil on panel
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania

Domenico Beccafumi
Throned Figure - Amor Patriae
ca. 1530-35
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Domenico Beccafumi
Half-Length Study of a Youth
ca. 1540
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Domenico Beccafumi
Half-Length Study of a Youth
before 1551
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Roelant Savery
Mountain Landscape
1607
oil on panel
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

Roelant Savery
Landscape with Flock of Sheep
1610
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Roelant Savery
Flowers in a Vase
(The Liechtenstein Bouquet)
1612
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Roelant Savery (landscape and animals) and Cornelis van Haarlem (figures)
Adam and Eve in Paradise
1618
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety

Quant says:
     My shoulders shiver. A shadow chills me
     As thunderheads threaten the sun.

Malin says:
     Righteous wrath is raising its hands
     To strike and destroy.

Emble says: 
                                        Storm invades
     The Euclidean calm. The clouds explode.
     The scene dissolves, is succeeded by
     A grinning gap, a growth of nothing
     Pervaded by vagueness.

Rosetta says:
                                             Violent winds
     Tear us apart. Terror scatters us
     To the four coigns. Faintly our sounds
     Echo each other, unrelated
     Groans of grief at a great distance.

Quant says:
     In the wild West they are whipping each other.

Emble says:
     In the hungry East they are eating their books.

Rosetta says:
     In the numb North there are no more cradles.

Malin says: 
     The sullen South has been set on fire.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)