Book47

Costumes Anciens et Modernes
26 July 2013 - 25 Sept 2013
14.5 x 23 cm
handmade, found book cover
Gent, Rome, Massa Lubrense, Sorrento, Napoli, Pompeii, Amalfi Coast, Cologne, Vienna

Cover of sketchbook 47: a graphite study of the Farnese Hercules from behind set into the gilt-framed panel of a worn red book cover

Four loose cards from sketchbook 47: a candlestick still life, the Farnese Hercules from behind, an ecstatic upturned face with raised arm, and a light gestural nude stepping forward

Sketchbook 47 spread in ballpoint: the sea stacks of Baia delle Sirene rising from calm water, rocky shore in loose outline across the foreground

Sketchbook 47 spread: Tivoli notes on Villa d'Este's Hercules frescoes, and a watercolor of the artist's bare feet propped against the blue Bay of Naples with Vesuvius and Capri beyond — Sorrento and Pompeii notes around it

Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: colored-pencil study of legs against blue 'DIVO IOANNI' lettering, and a dense ballpoint drawing made standing at Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers — 'ROME III'

Sketchbook 47: watercolor of Vesuvius smoking above a band of blue sea, with Ovid's Fasti IV quoted below — the prayer of Romulus for Rome, written within sight of Vesuvio, 2 Aug 2013

Sketchbook 47 Naples spread: pencil studies after Caravaggio's 'Seven Acts of Mercy', two anguished theater masks, and a winged sphinx — 'Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo'

Sketchbook 47 Cologne spread in ballpoint: Kölner Dom interior with a red-robed cleric, a Madonna ringed by votive crosses, an octagonal labyrinth and gothic tracery — 'to draw is to confess?'

Sketchbook 47 spread at Cologne's Wallraf museum: notes on Stefan Lochner and International Gothic, a sketch of the Virgin with a tower, and a study of Falconet's female bather

Sketchbook 47 spread at the Musée de Flandre, Cassel: notes on Flemish Mannerism and 'The Flood' by Matthijs Cock, sketches of a jester and the Struganoff Madonna's snake-like sleeve

Sketchbook 47 spread on the 'Rubens in Europe' exhibition: écorché studies, notes on Van Dyck's Charles I and Rubens's Leda and the Swan copy after Michelangelo — 'bursting out of this rectangle, but so still'

Sketchbook 47 spread: two graphite studies of a curly-headed marble Venus, with notes on Fetti's 'Melancholy', Thomas Boudin, and Coysevox's 'Crouching Venus' — 'she's looking heavenward, sitting on a tortoise'

Sketchbook 47 spread in sanguine pencil: tumbling stacks of blocky ruins and scattered figures with beams, captioned 'Adult parties w/ wine & fire'

Sketchbook 47 spread at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum: sketches after Titian's Danae and a baroque portrait head, with notes on the Kunstkammer bezoar, Bruegel the Elder, and Vermeer's 'The Art of Painting'

Sketchbook 47 Vienna spread: blue-pencil study after Correggio's 'Jupiter and Io', museum sketchers at easels, Klimt ornament motifs, and notes on the Secession's Beethoven Frieze and the Leopold Museum

Sketchbook 47 Rome spread: full-page graphite study of a sprawling classical nude with an arm flung overhead, beside grotteschi from Palazzo Doria, a Pietro da Cortona sketch, and notes on feeling at home in Rome