Saturday, December 26, 2015

Monochrome Madonnas

Hendrik Goltzius
Holy Family
16th century
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Baldassare Peruzzi
Holy Family
1531
drawing
Getty

A mother came to mould
Those limbs like ours which are
What must make our daystar
Much dearer to mankind;
Whose glory bare would blind
Or less would win man's mind.
Through her we may see him
Made sweeter, not made dim,
And her hand leaves his light
Sifted to suit our sight.

 Gerard Manley Hopkins, from The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe (1880s)

Cesare da Sesto
Holy Family with Angel
16th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francesco Morandini
Study of Madonna & Child with Angels
16th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francesco Salviati
Madonna & Child with St Anne & St John the Baptist
ca. 1550
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alonso Cano
Madonna & Child
17th century
drawing
Prado

Spanish artist
Madonna & Child Adored by Two Bishops
ca. 1680
Getty

Giambattista Tiepolo
Madonna & Child with St Sebastian, St Francis & Angels
18th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jacopo da Pontormo
Madonna & Child with Saints
ca. 1514-22
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nosadella
Adoration of the Magi
16th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fra Bartolommeo
Adoration of the Magi
15th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael
Madonna & Child Reading
16th century
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum