Friday, August 7, 2015

Drifters

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Portrait of Sisinio Poli
1638
Morgan Library

These fragments are now at rest in New York, having drifted away long ago from the shores of Italy's seventeenth century where they originated.

Caravaggio
Peter's Denial of Christ
c. 1610
Metropolitan Museum

Ludovico Carracci
Madonna & Child with Saints
1607
Metropolitan Museum

Domenichino
Classical Landscape with Fishermen
17th century
Morgan Library

Guercino
Holy Family
17th century
Morgan Library

Francisque Millet
Mercury & Battus
1660s
Metropolitan Museum

Pier Francesco Mola
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
1640s
Metropolitan Museum

Giacomo Torelli
Ships and the Sea viewed through a Rocky Cavern
17th century
Morgan Library