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In week four with instructor Glenn Vilppu, you will examine how the Old Masters approach head drawing. Glenn will draw over and analyze several masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Anthony van Dyck, etc. You will look closely at how the masters employed basic head structure, planes, and anatomy in their creation.
Throughout this course, you’ll have access to the NMA community for feedback and critiques to improve your work as you progress.
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Reference Images (47)
Leonardo da Vinci, Man Tricked by Gypsies, 1494.
Leonardo da Vinci, Heads of Sts Thomas and James the Greater.
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Two Warrior's Heads for the Battle of Anghiari, 1504 - 1505.
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Judas.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Terracotta Head of a Bearded Saint, c. late 1600s.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Busto di Francesco I d'Este, 1650-1651.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647-1652.
Anthony van Dyck, Two Studies of a Man’s Head, 1618-1619.
Anthony van Dyck.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
Juan Luna, Esopo (Aesop's Fables), c. 1638.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Ungrateful Son, c. 1770.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Study of the Head of an Old Man, c. 1755.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Head of an Old Woman Looking Up, c. 1763.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Monsignor Francesco Barberini, c. 1623.
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1670s.
Leonardo da Vinci, Christ Figure, 1490-1495.
Leonardo da Vinci, Presumed Self-portrait, c. 1512.
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Head of a Man, c. 1718.
Parmigianino, Three Feminine Heads, c. 1522-1524.
Parmigianino, Bishop Saint in Bust-Length (Cartoon for an Altarpiece), 1503-40.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Toilet of Venus, 1614-1615.
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 1617-1628.
Peter Paul Rubens, Paus Nicolaas V, 1612-1616.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban, 1609-1611.
Peter Paul Rubens, Four Studies of a Head of a Moor, 1614.
Gerard van Honthorst, A Boy Blowing on a Firebrand, 1621-22.
Gerard van Honthorst, Old Woman Examining a Coin by a Lantern (Sight or Avarice), 1623.
Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci, 1474-1478.
Titian, Girl in Fur, 1530-1540.
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, 1530.
Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a Noblewoman, 1580.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, 1552.
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