Giovanni Fontana

Sleeping Boy - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century

16th Century

Woman Figure is an original pencil drawing artwork on paper realized by Paul Baudry. Good condition and aged. The artwork represents a beautiful figure ...

Two Naked Women Including one Kneeling is an original artwork realized by George Henri Tribout. Original pencil drawing on paper. Signed G.T. This interesting drawing shows a beau...

Nude woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc in the early 1900. Pencil and pastel drawing on brown paper in very good conditions. Hand-signed on the ...

Nude Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941). Pencil on brown paper in very good conditions. Hand-signed on the lower left.

Naked Woman is an artwork, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941). Drawing pencil on paper. Hand Signed on back. The artist wants t...

The Posing Nude is a Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous french artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is rep...

Pencil on paper, dated (lower right), 55cm x 44cm (76cm x 64cm framed) Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academic art training in Europe from the 16th century onwar...

Charcoal on paper, 60cm x 42cm, (74cm x 60cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academ...

Italian School, 16th Century Provenance: Private Collection, New York This intriguing drawing is a study by an anonymous 16th-century Italian artist after a vignette in Michelangelo’s fresco of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. The altar wall of the Sistine Chapel was already richly decorated when Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint his Last Judgment...

Provenance: Private Collection, UK After initial training under Justus Suttermans and Vincenzo Dandini, in 1673 Anton Domenico Gabbiani embar...

Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene Pen and black ink on paper Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...

This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636. 1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today. The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...