Monthly Archives: June 2012

Saints’ day. Special Peter & Paul

By Guercino – St Tabitha raised from the dead by the apostle Peter

By Bassano – St Peter resting

By Titian – Studies for St Peter Martyr

By Savoldo, G. G. – St Paul

By Reni – St Peter’s crucifixion

By Giordano – St. Peter with St Agatha in the jail

By Bassano – Study for St Paul

By Van Hoogstraten – St Peter’s vision with animals

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Saints’ day. Special John

By Preti – St John the Baptist

By del Sarto – Face of St John the Baptist

By Greco – Study for St John the Evangelist and angel

By Delacroix (after Rubens) – St. John

By Fiorentino, Rosso – St. John weeping ( for ‘The deposition of the cross at Volterra’), and also a drawing of a porcupine

By Cambiaso – John the Baptist

By Guercino – Saint John resting his head on his right arm

By Bassano, Jacopo – Studies of St John and the good thief on the cross

By Mola (Attributed) – St John the Baptist

By Greco – Saint John the Evangelist with the eagle

By Parmigianino – St John in the desert

By di Credi – Saint John the Baptist

By Guercino – The martyrdom of St John and St Paul

By Cambiaso – Saint John the Evangelist

By Greco – St John the Evangelist

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Heads

By Nolde – Head of a spaniard

By Millet – Two studies of a man’s head

By Redon – Unknown title

By Carpaccio – A man wearing a beret

By Rego, Paula – Head of a woman with half-closed eyes

By Cézanne – Study of a head to Mardi Gras

By Sirani, Elisabetta – Head of a blonde youth

By Guercino – Head of a man

By Dürer – ‘Four books on human proportion’

By Puvis de Chavannes – The head of a woman with bangs hairstyle

By Géricault – Three studies about male head

By Derain – Female head

By Picasso – Sketches of heads

By Lowry – Unknown title

By Watteau – Head of a man

By Perugino, Pietro – Head of a man in profile

By Cranach, Lucas the Elder – Head of a man wearing a hat

By Van der Weyden, Rogier – Female head

By González, Juli – Cubist head

By Holbein – Studies of the bust of a woman and hands

By Goncharova, Natalia – Classical female head

By Da Vinci – Proportions of the human face

By Manet – Study of a woman

By Malevich – Head of a man with long hair

By Raphael – Study of head, left arm and shoulder of a woman

By Michelangelo – Satirical heads of Hercules and Antaeus

By Picasso – Head of a woman

By Ricci, S. – Head of a pharisee

By Klimt – A bald man

By Carracci – Head of a smiling lad

By Ghirlandaio – Head of a woman

By Matisse – Study of a face

By Constable – Study of a head

By Raphael – Study of heads and hands

By Uccello – Head of a man in profile

By Beham, Hans Sebald – Heads

By Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico – Study for the head of Beatrice of Bourgogne

By Parmigianino – Three female heads

By Barocci – Two studies of a female head

By Verrocchio, Andrea del – Head of a woman seen in profile

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Male nudes

By Delacroix – Naked bearded man seen from rear

By Tintoretto – Study of a naked man

By Cézanne – The bather

By Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Male nude holding a staff and raising his right arm

By Pontormo – Three studies of standing male nudes

By Michelangelo – The human proportions

By Géricault – Study for ‘Raft of the Medusa’

By Da Vinci – Male nude seen from rear

By Della Bella, Stefano – Man lying

By Cocteau, Jean – Naked man with his left arm above his head

By Beccafumi, Domenico – Three old men nudes

By Da Verona (Attributed) – Nude of a man

By Dalí – Naked boy long-haired

By Villard de Honnecourt – Male nude and depiction of two leafs with human face (detail)

By Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri – Naked man lying with his right leg raised

By Carracci – Seated man

By Montagna, Bartolomeo – Standing naked man holding drapery

By Mantegna, Andrea – Study of three figures lying on the ground

By Berruguete – Standing male nude

By Popova, Lubov S. – A sitting male model

By Canini, G.- Naked man on a pedestal

By Picasso – Men’s pregnancy

By Bocciardo, Clemente – A male nude in a desperate attitude

By Michelangelo – A mustached seated man

By Tiepolo – Massive male nudes

By Hodler, F. – Naked young man on a hill

By Dürer – ‘About Symmetry’

By Botticelli – Two figure studies

By Warhol – A sitting man shrugs his legs

By Raphael – Three nude bearers

By Picabia – Embroidery

By Franco, Battista – Study of a male nude, a head and a nude torso and legs

By Carracci – Seated man holding a staff

By Chassériau, Théodore – Study of a man standing with right arm extended and left leg study

By Boccioni, Umberto – Seated male nude

By Vesalius, Andreas – ‘De humani corporis fabrica’

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Animals everything

By Holbein, H. the Younger – The bat

By Delacroix – Royal tiger

By Pisanello – Two bears standing

By Dufresne – Zebras fleeing from crocodiles’ attack

By Gaudier-Brzeska – Monkey

By Ligozzi – Study of a flying fish

By Regnault, Henri – Two heads of lynx

By Kunisada – A crab

By Le Brun, Charles – Two heads of camel

By Da Udine – Study of a bird

By Scorza – Studies of a wolf and dove

By Appel – Red bird in blue

By Marc, Franz – A fawn scratching

By Dürer – Lioness

By Picabia – Tiger

By Kuchan, Li – Unknown title

By Rubens – Study of a lion

By unknown author of Giovanni De Grassi’s Studio – Two wolves

By Gaudier-Brzeska – Wolf

By Kokoschka – Turtle

By Macke – Donkey, camels and horse

By Van der Vinne, Vincent – A toad

By Poussin – Camel

By Pisanello – Falcons, eagle, and porcupine

By Sargent, J. S. – Oxen herd

By Da Vinci – Study of a bird in flight

By Hoffmann – Red squirrel

By Cranach, the Elder – Study of a lion

By unknown author, 17th century (Mughal Empire) – Blue-bull or ‘nilgai’

By Beuys – Dove, food and rainbow

By Dürer – A walrus

By Strada, Jacopo – Ornate elephant

By Cranach, L. the Younger – Fowls and foxes

By Barye, Antoine L. – Studies of crocodile

By Savery, R. – Two Dodo birds

By Moreau, Gustave – Study of a viper that blows

By Titian – Eagle

By Eisen – A bird in the shore

By anonymous – Leopard on a rock in front of an eagle

By Stubbs, G. – Elk seen in profile

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