A Sheet of Heads late 18th–mid-19th century Mauro Gandolfi Italian This polished sheet with ten clustered heads is a fine example of the artist’s so-called pictorial heads (teste pittoriche), a peculiar type of drawing that originated with the Bolognese artist Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802) and which his son Mauro continued with great commercial success. Included are heads of different types: old bearded men, portraits, women with complex hairdos, and youths with laurel crowns inspired by antiquity. With regularly spaced cross-hatching and a dense system of dots to create shadows and volumes, Ga
A Sheet of Heads late 18th–mid-19th century Mauro Gandolfi Italian This polished sheet with ten clustered heads is a fine example of the artist’s so-called pictorial heads (teste pittoriche), a peculiar type of drawing that originated with the Bolognese artist Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802) and which his son Mauro continued with great commercial success. Included are heads of different types: old bearded men, portraits, women with complex hairdos, and youths with laurel crowns inspired by antiquity. With regularly spaced cross-hatching and a dense system of dots to create shadows and volumes, Gandolfi’s signature style of draftsmanship renders form as if in a A Sheet of Heads. Mauro Gandolfi (Italian, Bologna 1764–1834 Bologna). late 18th–mid-19th century. Pen and brown ink. Drawings
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