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Friday, October 18, 2024

Fresco Preparations

Johann Georg Wolcker
Virgin of Sorrows
bestowing the Rosary on the Four Continents
1747
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Joseph Mages
The Marriage of the Virgin
ca. 1765
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
The Virgin in Clouds
ca. 1522-24
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
St Matthew in Clouds
ca. 1520
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Museum, Athens

Charles Meynier
Archangel Michael subduing Satan
1827
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Museum, Athens

Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio Licinio)
Fleeing Youth
ca. 1520-21
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Bernardino Lanino
Two Apostles
ca. 1546-48
drawing
(study for fresco)
Yale University Art Gallery

Pomponio Amalteo
The Flight into Egypt
ca. 1535
drawing
(study for fresco)
Morgan Library, New York

Luca Giordano
Mercury, Pallas and Vulcan arming Hercules
ca. 1696-97
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Annibale Carracci
Ignudo
ca. 1598-99
drawing
(study for fresco)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Annibale Carracci
Atlante
ca. 1596-98
drawing
(study for fresco)
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

Raphael
Group of Figures
1514
drawing
(study for fresco)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Raphael
Adam
ca. 1509
drawing
(study for fresco)
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe
Gallerie degli Uffizi,Florence

Fra Bartolomeo
Study of Draped Figure
ca. 1499-1500
drawing
(study for fresco)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone
Glorification of the Cross
ca. 1718
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Paolo Veronese
The Muse of Painting
ca. 1560-65
oil on canvas
(modello for fresco)
Detroit Institute of Arts

from The Island of Statues

I plucked her backwards by her dress of green,
To question her – oh no, I did not fear,
Because St. Joseph's image hangeth here
Upon my necklace. But the goblin queen
Faded and vanished: nothing now is seen
Saving a green frog dead upon the grass.
As figures moving mirrored in a glass,
The singing shepherds, too, have passed away.
O Arcady, O Arcady, this day
A deal of evil and of change hath crossed
Thy peace.

– W.B. Yeats (1885)

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Visual Relics (1996-1999)

D.W. Mellor
Pear and Orange
1996
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Martin Parr
Untitled
(series, British Food)
1996
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Andrew Moore
Fire Curtain
1996
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Alexey Titarenko
Stranger, Saint Petersburg
1996
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Alexey Titarenko
Curved Frozen Canal, Saint Petersburg
1998
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Danny Lyon
James Dedios, Jicarilla Apache, Dulce, New Mexico
1997
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

John Coplans
Untitled - Study for Self-Portrait
1997
nine digital prints
Yale University Art Gallery

Karl Lagerfeld
Model wearing Nimbus Hat
(Chanel haute-couture)
1997
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Tom Hunter
Woman reading a Possession Order
1997
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

John Pfahl
Sawdust Pile, Tioga Corners, PA
(series, Piles)
1997
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Orit Raff
Untitled (Freezer #6)
1997
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

David Stephenson
Dome, Passau, Germany
1997
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

David Stephenson
Dome, San Lorenzo, Turin
1997
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cry Laughing
1997
C-prints
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier
1998
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Andrea Modica
Human Being C11 Female 54 Years
1999
platinum-palladium print
Denver Art Museum

. . . racing to the forest,

Amata now tries greater scandal, spurs

to greater madness. She conceals her daughter

in leafy mountains, stealing from the Trojans

that marriage, holding off the wedding torches:

"Evoe Bacchus!" is her shriek and cry.

"For only you are worthy of the virgin;

for you she has taken up the supple thyrsus;

she circles you in dance, for you she saves

her sacred hair." The news flies on. Straightway

all of the matrons feel the same zeal, kindled

by Furies in their breasts, to seek new homes.

And they desert their houses, bare their necks

and hair before the wind. Still others crowd

the skies with quivering cries; dressed in fawn hides,

they carry vine-bound spears. And at the center

Amata lifts a blazing firebrand

of pine and, raging, sings the wedding song

of Turnus and her daughter as she rolls

her bloodshot eyes; her cry is savage, sudden:

"O Latin mothers, listen now, wherever

you are: if any love still lives within

your pious hearts for sad Amata, if

care for a mother's rights still gnaws at you,

then loose the headbands on your hair, take to

these orgies with me." So Allecto drives

the queen to every side with Bacchus' goads

among the woods, the wilderness of beasts.

– Amata incites the Latin women, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647) - Eclectic Baroque

Giovanni Lanfranco
Assumption of the Virgin
1625-27
cupola fresco
Basilica di Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome

Giovanni Lanfranco
Ecstasy of St Margaret of Cortona
1622
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Giovanni Lanfranco
The Last Supper
ca. 1624-25
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Giovanni Lanfranco
Paradiso
1643
cupola fresco
Duomo di Napoli

Giovanni Lanfranco
Paradiso (detail)
1643
cupola fresco
Duomo di Napoli

Giovanni Lanfranco
Norandino and Lucina discovered by the Ogre
(scene from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto)
ca. 1624
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Giovanni Lanfranco
Rinaldo abandoning Armida
(scene from Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso)
1614
oil on canvas
private collection

Giovanni Lanfranco
Council of the Gods
1624-25
ceiling fresco
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Giovanni Lanfranco
Council of the Gods
Venus and Mars
1624-25
ceiling fresco
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Giovanni Lanfranco
Staging of a Water Battle with Gladiators
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Giovanni Lanfranco
Virgin and Child
appearing to St James the Greater
and St Anthony Abbot
1622-23
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Lanfranco
St Augustine washing the Feet of Christ
1636
oil on canvas
Iglesia de las Agustinas Recoletas, Salamanca

Giovanni Lanfranco
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
before 1647
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Giovanni Lanfranco
Self Portrait
ca. 1628-32
oil on canvas
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647) - Painter from Parma, he introduced to Rome the illusionism of Correggio's domes, initiating a new phase of Baroque decoration (1625-27, S. Andrea della Valle). During 1634-46 he was the most successful fresco painter in Naples, influencing later Neapolitan decorative painters, notably Luca Giordano. A pupil of Agostino Carracci, after his master's death in 1602 Lanfranco joined Agostino's brother Annibale in the service of the Farnese in Rome. Despite rivalry with Annibale's pupils and followers, notably Guercino, Reni and Domenichino – which caused him to retire back to Emilia, 1609-11 – Lanfranco was able to establish himself as one of the leading painters of successive papal courts and powerful aristocratic patrons, modifying the classicizing style of the Carracci school through an admixture of Caravaggesque chiaroscuro and the freer, more painterly mode of Correggio. The prelude to his great dome painting at S. Andrea was the loggia vault of the Villa Borghese, 1624-25, a more dynamic and freer critique of Annibale's Farnese Gallery ceiling. His move to Naples was motivated, however, by his eclipse in the 1630s by the artists of the Barberini court, Bernini and Pietro da Cortona.

– excerpted from the Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists, Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton (2000)

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) - Fresco Projects

Giorgio Vasari
Elders of the Apocalypse
1572-74
dome fresco
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

Giorgio Vasari
Elders of the Apocalypse (detail)
1572-74
dome fresco
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

The final project of Vasari's life was to fresco the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence [above]. He died at age 62 with the work near completion.