And Proclaimed

With poet's pen a quest to write
Of the eternal now be shadow or light
With paint, brush, color and motion
In glory be this hour's devotion
'Tis the Muse whose call you heed
And proclaimed is the Creator's creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger (Plate 42), 1794/ca. 1825
William Blake (British, 1757–1827)
Relief etchings printed in orange-brown ink, heightened with watercolor and shell gold, with hand-painted decorative borders.

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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