Thursday, February 18, 2016

Cavaliere d'Arpino, drawings and paintings

Cavaliere d’Arpino
Head of Tullius Hostilius
1597
Museum Kunstpalast Dusseldorf

Giuseppe Cesare (1568-1640) usually appears as the Cavaliere d'Arpino in art history books, a title of honor bestowed by his patron, the Aldobrandini pope Clement VIII. The surviving drawings of this expressive artist are perhaps stronger and more eloquent than the surviving paintings.

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Figure studies
17th century
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Cavaliere d’Arpino
Equestrian Study
1601
Museum Kunstpalast Dusseldorf

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Decorative Figure Holding Back a Curtain
ca. 1595-96
drawing
British Museum

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Study for the Expulsion of Eve
ca. 1602-03
drawing
British Museum

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Figure Study
ca. 1595
Musée Magnin

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Allegorical figure
ca. 1588
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Faun with garland
17th century
Prado

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Head of a man
ca. 1600
Prado

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Perseus & Andromeda
1592
oil on slate
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Perseus & Andromeda
1593-94
oil on lapis lazuli
St. Louis Museum of Art

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Perseus & Andromeda
1595-96
oil on panel
Clark Art institute

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Perseus & Andromeda
1596
oil on slate
Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Cavaliere d'Arpino
Perseus & Andromeda
1602
oil on slate
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna