Line and Shadow

line and shadow
a knowing to convey
line and shadow
echoes of heart at play
line and shadow
the revelation real
line and shadow
beauty beyond conceal
line and shadow
truth and soul
sought by the artist's hand
so be the gifts of Presence
in divine command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right, 1545-55.

Black chalk on light brown paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.8 cm).
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By The Hand Of The Artist ~ Creation's Beauty

How shall I choose to spend my days

Be they in gratitude and praise
How shall I choose to see your face
But by your smile and loving grace
How shall I feel this Presence known
By Creation's beauty eternally shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Agnolo Bronzino, "Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View", ca. 1542-43.
Charcoal and black chalk (with stumping), highlighted with white chalk,
on white paper; some outlines stylus-incised.
Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts

Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
"Head of a Young Woman," circa 1543-45.
Photo: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Monticelli, 1503 - 1572 Florence),
"Head of a Curly-Haired Child Looking Up to the Right"
(study for the Christ Child in the Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John) Ca. 1527.
Black chalk, 12 5/8 x 9 11/16 inches.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right, 1545-55.
Black chalk on light brown paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.8 cm).
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Agnolo Bronzino, "Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View", ca. 1542-43.
Charcoal and black chalk (with stumping), highlighted with white chalk,
on white paper; some outlines stylus-incised.
Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts


Strokes, lines, shading,
This artistry of soul
Beauty eternal
Delicate and bold
Breath and life
Pulsing shown
In the touching, capturing,
Portraying of beauty known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

To stand before such beauty, to be in the presence of such artistry,
to know that in this moment lives the art of centuries past,
is to live the glory of creation eternal.

On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010

The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572),
the great Florentine court artist of the Medici.
www.metmuseum.org

Beauty

with purpose and quest
line and form in grace prevail
glory in beauty.

Being
Eternal
Aspiration
Unifying
Truth
Yearning.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Seated Male Nude (Study for the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence), 1565-69, Agnolo Bronzino, 1503-1572.
image: www.metmuseum.org

On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010

The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572),
will bring together nearly all of the 61 known drawings by, or attributed to,
the great Florentine court artist of the Medici.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
and so the echoes of heart, soul, and quest, be heard...
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