Sunday, December 8, 2024

Rendering Textiles - IX

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1550-55
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Frederic Leighton
Drapery Study
(Torso with Crossed Arms)
before 1896
drawing
Milwaukee Art Museum

Augustin Pajou
Portrait of artist Marie-Adélaïde Hall
1775
terracotta
Frick Collection, New York

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Virgin and Child
ca. 1495-96
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Anonymous French Artist
Drapery Study of Magistrate's Robes
ca. 1670-1730
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Aristide Maillol
Draped Torso
1900
bronze
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Leandro Bassano
Portrait of Dogaressa Morosina Morosini-Grimani
ca. 1595-96
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Fra Bartolomeo
Drapery Study of Standing Model
ca. 1508-1509
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Raimondo Trentanove
Portrait of Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte
(mother of Napoleon)
1818
marble
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Vittore Carpaccio
The Virgin Reading
ca. 1505
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)
Drapery Study of Seated Youth
ca. 1595
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous French Artist
Bust Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1620
marble
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Anne Fenoulhet
1760
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Carl Friedrich Lessing
Drapery Study
ca. 1830-40
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Roman Empire
Nymph
1st-2nd century AD
marble fragment of figure group
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Dido [with Cupid, disguised as Ascanius]:

No, for thy sake Ile love thy father well.
O dull conceipted Dido, that till now
Didst never thinke Æneas beauitfull:
But now for quittance of this oversight,
Ile make me bracelets of his golden haire,
His glistering eyes shall be my looking glasse,
His lips an altar, where Ile offer up
As many kisses as the Sea hath sands,
In stead of musicke I will heare him speake,
His lookes shall be my only Librarie,
And thou Æneas, Didos treasurie,
In whose faire bosome I will locke more wealth,
Then twentie thousand Indiaes can affoord:
O here he comes, love, love, give Dido leave
To be more modest then her thoughts admit,
Lest I be made a wonder to the world.

– Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queene of Carthage, act III, scene i (1594)