Monday, February 9, 2015

Guercino Landscape

Guercino
Landscape
1630s

The landscape drawing above is in the Rijskmuseum where it is identified as the work of the Italian baroque painter Guercino (1591-1666). Because of its surpassing beauty this landscape-made-with-a-simple-pen commands prominence in this gathering-together of favored Italian drawings now scattered by time and chance among many museums.

Filippo Juvarra
Theater design for the courtyard of a Palace
1713

Canaletto
Garden Statues
1725

Fra Bartolommeo
Judith
c. 1500-15

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Design for table leg
1760s

Perino del Vaga
Solon giving laws to the Athenians
c. 1541

Francesco Salviati
Reclining Nude
c. 1550

Marco Ricci
Male singer in the role of Hercules
1720s

Sodoma
Christ carrying the Cross
c. 1535

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Figure Studies
c. 1535

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Magician & youth at an Altar
c. 1760

circle of Andrea Mantegna
Hercules & Antaeus
c. 1500

Pietro Testa
Hercules & Antaeus
17th century

Paolo Farinati
Neptune
16th century