Friday, September 25, 2015

Statements

Michele Parrasio
Allegory of the Infante's Birth
c. 1575
Prado

Giuseppe Valeriani
Design for a Baldacchino
18th century
Morgan Library

Fantasy images from the European past, all tending to a radically decorative vision of architecture. Here is assembled a family of structures prepared to defy utility, root and branch. Their mission is to speak, not to shelter.

Hubert Robert
Colosseum, Rome
1780s
Prado

Luigi Vanvitelli
Court with Obelisk
18th century
Morgan Library

Gian Paolo Panini
Pyramid of Caius Cesto, Rome
c. 1730
Prado

Antonio Basoli
Design for a Theater Curtain
18th century
Morgan

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
Landscape with Mercury and Herse
c. 1660
Prado

Josef Platzer
Circular Hall with Dome
18th century
Morgan Library

Hendrick Pot
Queen Henrietta Maria and King Charles I with the future Charles II
c. 1632
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
Theatrical Divertissement
18th century
Metropolitan Museum

Vincent Van Gogh
Corridor in the Asylum
1889
Metropolitan Museum

Giuseppe Valeriani
Military Camp with Tents
18th century
Morgan Library