Sunday, May 25, 2025

Approaches to Ornament - II

Taddeo Zuccaro
Design for Wall Panel
ca. 1553-56
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder
Ornamental Frieze with Acanthus Motif
1561
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hans Bock the Elder
Study for Facade Painting with Figures from Classical Mythology
1571
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Andrea Casalini
Design for Greave Armour of Alessandro Farnese
ca. 1576-80
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anonymous Printmaker after Andrea Palladio
Temple of Neptune, Rome
(entablature, capital, base and soffit)
1581
woodcut
(illustration to Palladio's Quattro Libri dell'Architettura)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Giovanni Domenico Cappellino
Design for Cartouche
ca. 1620
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Stefano della Bella
Study for Floral Volute
ca. 1640
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Jupiter crowning the Medici
ca. 1642-44
ceiling fresco
Sala di Giove, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Anonymous German Artist
Antlers of Red Deer
17th century
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Anonymous Printmaker after Hendrik Hondius
Papist Pyramid
17th century
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Anonymous German Artist
Shell-Shaped Bowl
17th century
carved jasper, silver-gilt, turquoises
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Fountain Figures
1652
terracotta modello
(unused design for Piazza Navona)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Charles Le Brun
The Rising of Aurora (detail)
ca. 1652-56
oil on canvas
(ceiling panels)
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Claude Bellin (designer)
Vase with Cupids
ca. 1665-67
bronze
Chåteau de Versailles

Romano Fortunato Carapecchia
Design for Fountain
ca. 1690
drawing
Courtauld Gallery, London

Charles Le Brun
Design for Guéridon
before 1690
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Vienna

from His Local Habitation without a Name 

When we found him drinking our furniture polish
he explained quite simply he had run out of beer.
It was not so much the taste which exhilarated
him, he admitted, as it was the ruddy harvest
color. And finally, there were those words printed
on the label like a rubric, "An end to dust."

– Ernest Sandeen (1994)