Study of an ideal bust of a Woman: the 'Zenobia' for Gherardo Perini ...
Title: Study of an ideal bust of a Woman: the 'Zenobia' for Gherardo Perini (recto); Anatomical sketches (verso) Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome) Date: 1503. Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (35.7 × 25.1 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli ...
such as Febo del Poggio or Gherardo Perini. Born in Florence in 1480, Gherardo Perini was a near-contemporary of Michelangelo. Their close friendship dates from about 1520 and although Perini is not mentioned by name in any of Michelangelo's lyrics, a short autograph comment on a
Michelangelo in Love: Decoding the Children's Bacchanal
Apr 25, 2014 · Tolnay, Corpus, vol. 2, 323r, linked the Ashmolean drawing with head studies that Michelangelo gave his friend Gherardo Perini in the 1520s, yet, as Michael Hirst points out, he also made head drawings for Cavalieri.
Michelangelo: Poetry - umb.edu
Jun 6, 1999 · Michelangelo: Poetry. In the four sonnets below, Michelangelo is discussing his passionate love first for Gherardo Perini, whom he met in 1522, and later for Tommaso de' Cavalieri, whom he met and fell in love with in 1534.
The Passions of Michelangelo - Rictor Norton
The handsome model Gherardo Perini came to work for Michelangelo around 1520; their love flourished between 1522-25, and lasted until the mid-1530s. Whenever Perini failed to show up at the studios, Michelangelo's nights were wracked by dreadful anxiety.
SEXUALITY IN ART: MICHELANGELO – Manchester Historian
Apr 11, 2018 · The figures later became identified as two of Michelangelo’s boyfriends, Gherardo Perini and Tommaso Cavalieri. However, of course it is true that the unclothed body may invoke many more feelings than solely enticement such as innocence, perfection, wisdom, freedom and in some cases divinity.
Michelangelo - Wikipedia
Some of the objects of Michelangelo's affections, and subjects of his poetry, took advantage of him: the model Febo di Poggio asked for money in response to a love-poem, and a second model, Gherardo Perini, shamelessly stole from him.
Ligozzi, Head of a Woman - The Courtauld
Vasari notes that Michelangelo gave the Florentine nobleman Gherardo Perini ‘three divine heads in black pencil’ (‘teste a matita nera divine’), and it is likely that all his highly finished drawings of ideal heads were made as gifts.[5] Ligozzi’s ideal heads reflects the legacy of Michelangelo’s work in Florence during the last ...
drawing - British Museum
Vasari records Michelangelo as giving three `teste a matita nera divine' to a Florentine nobleman named Gherardo Perini but, as P. Joannides (1996) observes, W42 cannot be traced to his possession. The idealization of W42 belies its traditional identification as a …
Featured in - Royal Collection Trust
A black chalk drawing of an ideal female head in left profile, with an elaborate headdress. This is an accurate copy after a drawing by Michelangelo in the British Museum (1895,0915.493), one of a number of teste divine (ideal heads) drawn by the artist, mostly in the 1520s.
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