Thursday, March 12, 2026

Many Copies

Alessandro Allori after Michelangelo
Allegory of a Dream
ca. 1570-75
oil on copper
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence


Timothy Cole after Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
1891
wood-engraving on tissue paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Marco Dente after Raphael
Madonna of the Fish
ca. 1517-20
engraving
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Paolo Fidanza after Raphael
Portrait of the ancient poet Corinna
ca. 1757-64
etching
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia after Raphael
Abraham and Melchizedek
ca. 1510-20
engraving
British Museum

Michele Greco after Michelangelo
Bathers from The Battle of Cascina
ca. 1560
engraving
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Giovanni Paolo Lasinio after Michelangelo
Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici
ca. 1840
engraving
British Museum

Edmond LeMoine after Michelangelo
Study of a Cast of the Head of a Slave
ca. 1900
drawing
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec

Lorenzo di Credi after Leonardo da Vinci
Drapery Study
before 1480
drawing
British Museum

Master of the Beheading of St John the Baptist after Leonardo da Vinci
Allegorical Composition
ca. 1500-1520
engraving
British Museum

Master of the Pala Sforzesca
after
Leonardo da Vinci
Head of an Elderly Man
ca. 1490-1500
drawing
British Museum

Master of the Pala Sforzesca 
after 
Leonardo da Vinci
Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1490-1500
drawing
British Museum

Raphael after Michelangelo
Back View of the David
ca. 1505-1508
drawing
British Museum

Thomas Stothard after Raphael
Studies of The Transfiguration
1815
watercolor and ink on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Johannes Stradanus after Raphael
Creation of Eve
ca. 1580
drawing
British Museum

Giovanni Francesco Susini after Michelangelo
Bacchus
ca. 1620
marble statue
Musée du Louvre

Michele Tosini after Michelangelo
Dawn
ca. 1555-65
oil on panel
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Dawn after dawn after dawn
then suddenly the Dark One –

Consumption, Dropsy, Fever –
a pit and earth flung over. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Tony Harrison