Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Ornamental

Rosso Fiorentino (Giovan Battista di Jacopo)
Design for Funerary Monument
ca. 1539-40
drawing
British Museum


Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Design for Decoration of an Altar Wall
before 1547
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Domenico Passignano after Giovanni da Udine
Panels of Ornament
(after frescoes in the Vatican Loggia)
before 1636
drawing
British Museum

Willem Claesz Heda
Banquet Piece with Mince Pie
1635
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Filippo Passarini
Designs for Reliquaries
1698
etching
British Museum

Filippo Passarini
Designs for Ecclesiastical, Royal and Noble Escutcheons
1698
etching
British Museum

François Roettiers
Angels in Clouds crowning Heraldic Shield with Mitre
ca. 1730
engraving
British Museum

Gottfried Bernhard Göz
Title-page for series Schrecken des Krieges [Horrors of War]
1742
etching and engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Eric Rehn
Design for Fountain with Tritons and Dolphins
before 1793
drawing
British Museum

Romolo Achille Liverani
Design for Easter Sepulchre in Cathedral
1836
ink and watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Luigi Righetti
Design for Reliquary
ca. 1825
ink and watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Charles Lepec
Dragon supporting Sprite and surrounding a Frame
ca. 1880
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Charles Lepec
Dragon supporting Sprite and surrounding a Frame
ca. 1880
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Charles Ricketts
Costume Designs for Wagner's Parsifal (unrealized)
ca. 1910
graphite, charcoal and watercolor on paper
British Museum

David Lance Goines
Ravenswood Winery
1979
lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Peter Levine
Cal Arts Graduation Celebration
1980
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Lari Pittman
Portrait of a Textile (Damask)
2018
cel vinyl paint and spray enamel on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Madrigal

My thoughts hold mortal strife;
I do detest my life,
And with lamenting cries,
Peace to my soul to bring,
Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize;
But he, grim-grinning king,
Who caitives scorns, and doth the blest surprise,
    Late having decked with beauty's rose his tomb,
    Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come. 

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)