The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Five Grotesque Heads
1750–1800
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The term "grotesque" derives from the Italian word "grotteschi," which refers to the grottoes found in ancient Roman houses that were rediscovered around 1500.Description
From an early age, Gaetano Gandolfi was admired for his drawings, many of which were created as independent works of art and avidly collected by Italian and British patrons. This drawing is one of Gandolfi’s so-called teste pittoriche, or pictorial heads. Devised by the artist in the 1770s, this genre is based on contemporary academic theories that proposed that human emotions could be scientifically classified by facial expressions.- [R. E. Lewis, Inc.] (according to departmental card)
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).[did not find a registrarial file for this one, Apr. 1996]-?Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982).CMA, Graphic Humor (June 1-Aug. 29, 1982).18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).CMA, Eighteenth-Century Master Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).CMA, "Year in Review for 1970" (Feb. 10-Mar. 7, 1971), cma Bulletin 58 (1971), p. 67 no. 78.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1969.277