Today’s sketch is a detail from the David and Goliath segment of Ghiberti‘s Gates of Paradise I did when it was touring in Seattle. I actually saw it in Florence long ago when I was in seventh grade. However at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s museum sketch is another Ghiberti from his Gates of Paradise Series, specifically the Eden sequence with god creating Eve. This was my favorite of the three panels that the Seatlle Art Museum had on display, because to me it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is a couple of seperate angles from “The Baptism of Christ” a small bronze by Giovanni Battista Foggini done in Florence in 1723. This statue is always a treat and a challenge to do, as there is so much detail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is of the Lamentation of the Dead Christ by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, I’ve done multiple sketches of this piece before but the beauty of these baroque bronzes is they are so detail heavy you can draw them hundreds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went to Seattle Art Museum for their first free Thursday for the first time since I let my membership expire last year which means New Material! Today’s sketch is Hagar and the Angel by Bernardo Strozzi A very nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is yet another detail and angle of Lamentation of the Dead Christ by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, previous sketches can be seen here and here. As I’ve mentioned before this is one of the pieces I keep coming back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection. “Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon” by the Baroque Italian painter, Guercino. done in 1624 It illustrates a myth from the Roman historian and moralist Valerius[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is from the Seattle art Museum’s Renaissance collection. It’s a Crucifixion by Lorenzo Monaco with the Virgin and St John watching. It was done in Egg Tempera in 1408.
Today’s sketch is some details from an Annunciation, at the Seattle Art Museum, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi Aka Lo Scheggia, “the Splinter” done in egg tempera , 1440. I found myself quite taken by this piece. For a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75) from the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
