Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Fame's Trumpet

Domenico Gargiulo
Study of Groom with Rearing Horse
Morgan Library

Another favored group of 17th-century drawings  created by little-remembered or entirely forgotten Italian masters  some from the Metropolitan Museum, others from the Morgan Library.

Pietro Paolo Bonzi
Boy Releasing Bird
Morgan Library

Paolo De Matteis
Study for Galatea
Metropolitan Museum

Ciro Ferri
Fame Brandishing Trumpet
Morgan Library

Baldasare Franceschini
Study of Young Man & Drapery
Morgan Library
(gift of Brooke Astor)

Sigismondo Caula
Kneeling Youth
Morgan Library

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Figure Study
Metropolitan Museum

Aniello Falcone
Figures Fighting
Morgan Library

Giovanni Battista Carlone
Caryatids
Morgan Library

Orazio de Ferrari
Design for Wall Decoration
Morgan Library

Anonymous Roman Artist
Wooden model of Bernini's Baldachin installed at St. Peter's
Morgan Library

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti
Landscape with Ruined Arches
Morgan Library

Domenichino
Landscape with Fortified Town
Morgan Library

Donato Creti
Study of Tree
Morgan Library