Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Characteristic Heads from Two Generations

Federico Barocci
Head of a young woman
ca. 1582-84
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of the the Virgin
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Federico Barocci (1526-1612), born in Urbino, migrated to Rome as a young man, shaping his artistic style in the studio of Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro. Giacomo Cavedone (1577-1660), born fifty years later near Modena, also gravitated ultimately to Rome, but by way of the Carracci academy in Bologna.  Approaching portraits, the progressive Barocci placed his emphasis on personal idiosyncrasies. The younger Cavedone, by contrast, clothed sitters so far as he could in the lost stability of Renaissance tradition, aiming for the regularity and restraint that had been standard practice a century earlier.

Federico Barocci
Head of a man
ca. 1604-08
drawing
British Museum

Giacomo Cavedone
Antique bust called The Dying Alexander (Uffizi)
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Federico Barocci
Head of an old man
ca. 1575
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of St Paul
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Federico Barocci
Head of Anchises
ca. 1587
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of Bacchus (after antique) 
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Federico Barocci
Study for Head of Christ
1590s
drawing
British Museum

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of youth
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of a woman
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of a youth
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Christ with crown of thorns
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of a young woman
mid-17th century
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor