Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Roman Sculpture Represented in Two Dimensions

David Bailly
Classical Bust
1625
drawing
Rijksmuseum

Rome was so great it could not beare it selfe:
So when this world's compounded union breakes,
Time ends and to old Chaos all things turne;
Confused stars shal meete, celestiall fire
Fleete on the flouds, the earth shoulder the sea,
Affording it no shoare, and Phoebe's waine,
Chace Phoebus and inrag'd affect his place,
And strive to shine by day, and ful of strife
Disolve the engins of the broken world.
    All great things crush themselves, such end the gods,
    Allot the height of honor, men so strong
    By land, and sea, no forreine force could ruine:
    O Rome thy self art cause of all these evils 

 from the Pharsalia of Lucan (AD 39-65) translated by Christopher Marlowe

Theodore Matham
Two Roman Busts
1640
engraving
Rijksmuseum

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Putti with Garland
1596
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan Frans van Bloeman
Obelisk
late 17th century
etching
British Museum

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Terms with Nymph and Sylvanus
ca. 1545-50
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Jacques Prévost after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Terms with Satyrs
1535
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Nicoletta da Modena
Mercury
ca. 1500-1510
engraving
British Museum

Nicoletta da Modena
Triton carrying a Child
ca. 1507
engraving
British Museum

Nicoletta da Modena
Beleraphon and Pegasus
ca. 1500-1510
engraving
British Museum

Marcantonio Raimondi
Satyr and Sleeping Nymph
ca. 1510-27
engraving
British Museum

Marco da Ravenna
Bacchus with Panther
ca.1510-27
engraving
British Museum

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Hercules and the Nemean Lion
1534
engraving
British Museum


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Venus and Cupid
1625-45
etching
British Museum

François Perrier after Raphael
Mercury
1625-45
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art