Eye Drawing Number Two

3rd February 2006

Eye drawing number two

Second in the series, twenty drawings of eyes.

This eye comes from a portrait by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a 17th century baroque artist.

The picture I copied it from comes from a book of plates called "Great Portrait Drawings and Prints", also from the Dover Art Library. If you're in the UK you can get a lot of their publications on amazon. I recommend them.

The original is one of those strange portraits where the subject is smiling. I wonder if the sitters got face-ache from portraits like that, sitting smiling for so long. Its a beautiful drawing though, and even in the eye I think you can see the open, honest quality the face has.

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