EditorialFemale Nude, James Wells Champney, American, 18431903, Graphite on paper, Nude female figure lying on back, head to left of composition and seen in foreshortening, with right arm brought across in front of body. Above, paper pasted to drawing, with ske...
EditorialFemale Nude, James Wells Champney, American, 18431903, Graphite on paper, Nude female figure lying on back, head to left of composition and seen in foreshortening, with right arm brought across in front of body. Above, paper pasted to drawing, with ske...
EditorialStage Design: Window of a Pavilion, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and bistre on paper, A right side. The window is at right, seen in foreshortening. A curtain hangs in its opening, the one wing of which is laid upon the gaine supporting the ...
EditorialArtist: Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, called Il Battistello, Italian, 15781635, Compositional?Study, ca.?161620, Black and white chalk with touches of red chalk on blue paper, sheet: 30.8 ? 35.6 cm (12 1/8 ? 14?in.), Working in Naples, Giovanni Battist...
EditorialBenedetto Luti, Seated Nude Male Figure, 1694, red and white chalk on paper, 16 7/16 in. x 10 1/2 in. (41.8 cm. x 26.7 cm.), Luti signed and dated this academic study in Rome in 1694, the year the Florentine artist was elected to the Accademia di San L...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...
EditorialHead of a Man in Profile, 1490s, Black chalk, pen and brown ink, heightened with white., 11 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (29.9 x 24.4 cm), Drawings, Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) (Italian, Cortona, active by 1470?died 1523 Cortona), This sheet ...
EditorialSaint Paul, ca. 1510, Brush and brown, gray, and black ink, heightened with white (partly oxidized), on paper washed with brown., 10 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (26.4 x 11.4 cm), Drawings, Michele da Verona (Italian, Verona ca. 1470?Verona 1536/1544), The figure o...
EditorialForeshortening of a Library, 1728?78, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of leadpoint, 13 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (33.4 x 22.6 cm), Carlo Galli Bibiena (Italian, Vienna, 1728?after 1778).
EditorialStudy of the Head of a Youth Gazing Upward, late 15th?early 16th century, Black chalk; Squared in black chalk; eyes, nose, ears, mouth retouched with pen and brown ink., 8 7/8 x 5 15/16 in. (22.6 x 15.1 cm), Drawings, Workshop of Perugino (Pietro di Cr...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...