Fanart: While the Master's Away...
Media: Fanart, pencil sketches
Title: While the Master's Away...
Rating: PG
Warning: clumsy sketchiness, silly names, Renaissance mullet (sorry Kurt), goofy-looking Blaine, some questionable behavior/mischief
Summary: Italian Renaissance setting. Kurtenzio ("Kurtzi") is a model/assistant/companion for a great painter. Blannini ("Nino") is a cheerful musician the artist has hired to entertain Kurtzi while he poses. When the master is away, the boys find ways to entertain themselves...
Note: Influenced by thoughts about Leonardo da Vinci and his relationship to his assistants Salai and Melzi (also Pav and my cat sort of make cameos)
*I've noticed Photobucket seems to make the images slightly bigger and more blurry than intended, if you right click and choose "view image" it's a tiny bit sharper*
(The drawing on the right comes first in the sequence)
Kurtenzio is a beautiful Florentine youth who works as a model and assistant/companion for a great Italian painter. The master is very fond of the boy, calling him "Kurtzi" and indulging him with many gifts, beautiful clothing, and pets. But Kurtzi can be moody and discontent, so the artist hires Blannini, a cheerful young musician to play for the boy while he poses.
Kurtzi feels an immediate connection with Blannini and tells him to return later, when the master is away. Alone in the studio, the boys playfully sing together, and Kurtzi dresses up "Nino" (his petname for the musician) and has him pose in historical costumes. (Here Nino looks a little like Verrocchio's statue of David, and Kurtzi wears Nino's cap~which he thinks looks better on him.) The cat, Sfumato, senses there could be touble if the master were to discover this dalliance...
*~*~babbling "Footnotes" if you feel like reading~*~*~
This was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, whose mysterious genius I have always admired.
He had a beautiful and mischievous young assistant called Salai and later a companion named Melzi. http://andrewhopkinsart.blogspot.com/2010/10/leonardo-da-vinci-salai.html
There are stories that he had musicians play when he painted the Mona Lisa to lift his subject's melancholy. Kurt's pose is a little like Leonardo's images of angels and St. John the Baptist. Mysterious hand gestures/pointing are a common motif in his work. Blaine is posing a little like the version of the statue of David by Leonardo's teacher Andrea del Verrocchio. These things were in the back of my head as I scribbled last night.
*Also, some interesting speculation about Leonardo's personal life: http://italian.classic-literature.co.uk/leonardo-da-vinci/leonardo-da-vinci.asp "Some modern critics have contended that Leonardo's love of boys was well-known even in the sixteenth century. Rocke reports that in a fictional dialogue on l'amore masculino (male love) written by the contemporary art critic and theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Leonardo appears as one of the protagonists and declares, "Know that male love is exclusively the product of virtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, makes it so that from a tender age they would enter into the manly one as more stalwart friends...[sort of like Kurt and Blaine with friendship/love]
Freud, in an analysis of the artist, took the position that the following sentence, taken from one of Leonardo's notebooks, "indicates his frigidity": The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions. [Sorry, makes me think a little of Kurt in "Sexy" being turned off by porn.]
It is apparent from the works of Leonardo and his early biographers that he was a man of high integrity and very sensitive to moral issues. [reminds me of Kurt being "the most moral and compassionate person" Blaine knows.]
Vasari reports a story that as a young man in Florence Leonardo often bought caged birds just to release them from captivity. [Free Pavarotti ;)]
He was also a respected judge on matters of beauty and elegance, particularly in the creation of pageants." One of Leonardo's sketches thought to be Salai in a beautiful costume
Okay, thanks for indulging more of my weird historical Klaine musings. ~Grazie
Title: While the Master's Away...
Rating: PG
Warning: clumsy sketchiness, silly names, Renaissance mullet (sorry Kurt), goofy-looking Blaine, some questionable behavior/mischief
Summary: Italian Renaissance setting. Kurtenzio ("Kurtzi") is a model/assistant/companion for a great painter. Blannini ("Nino") is a cheerful musician the artist has hired to entertain Kurtzi while he poses. When the master is away, the boys find ways to entertain themselves...
Note: Influenced by thoughts about Leonardo da Vinci and his relationship to his assistants Salai and Melzi (also Pav and my cat sort of make cameos)
*I've noticed Photobucket seems to make the images slightly bigger and more blurry than intended, if you right click and choose "view image" it's a tiny bit sharper*
(The drawing on the right comes first in the sequence)
Kurtenzio is a beautiful Florentine youth who works as a model and assistant/companion for a great Italian painter. The master is very fond of the boy, calling him "Kurtzi" and indulging him with many gifts, beautiful clothing, and pets. But Kurtzi can be moody and discontent, so the artist hires Blannini, a cheerful young musician to play for the boy while he poses.
Kurtzi feels an immediate connection with Blannini and tells him to return later, when the master is away. Alone in the studio, the boys playfully sing together, and Kurtzi dresses up "Nino" (his petname for the musician) and has him pose in historical costumes. (Here Nino looks a little like Verrocchio's statue of David, and Kurtzi wears Nino's cap~which he thinks looks better on him.) The cat, Sfumato, senses there could be touble if the master were to discover this dalliance...
*~*~babbling "Footnotes" if you feel like reading~*~*~
This was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, whose mysterious genius I have always admired.
He had a beautiful and mischievous young assistant called Salai and later a companion named Melzi. http://andrewhopkinsart.blogspot.com/2010/10/leonardo-da-vinci-salai.html
There are stories that he had musicians play when he painted the Mona Lisa to lift his subject's melancholy. Kurt's pose is a little like Leonardo's images of angels and St. John the Baptist. Mysterious hand gestures/pointing are a common motif in his work. Blaine is posing a little like the version of the statue of David by Leonardo's teacher Andrea del Verrocchio. These things were in the back of my head as I scribbled last night.
*Also, some interesting speculation about Leonardo's personal life: http://italian.classic-literature.co.uk/leonardo-da-vinci/leonardo-da-vinci.asp "Some modern critics have contended that Leonardo's love of boys was well-known even in the sixteenth century. Rocke reports that in a fictional dialogue on l'amore masculino (male love) written by the contemporary art critic and theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Leonardo appears as one of the protagonists and declares, "Know that male love is exclusively the product of virtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, makes it so that from a tender age they would enter into the manly one as more stalwart friends...[sort of like Kurt and Blaine with friendship/love]
Freud, in an analysis of the artist, took the position that the following sentence, taken from one of Leonardo's notebooks, "indicates his frigidity": The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions. [Sorry, makes me think a little of Kurt in "Sexy" being turned off by porn.]
It is apparent from the works of Leonardo and his early biographers that he was a man of high integrity and very sensitive to moral issues. [reminds me of Kurt being "the most moral and compassionate person" Blaine knows.]
Vasari reports a story that as a young man in Florence Leonardo often bought caged birds just to release them from captivity. [Free Pavarotti ;)]
He was also a respected judge on matters of beauty and elegance, particularly in the creation of pageants." One of Leonardo's sketches thought to be Salai in a beautiful costume
Okay, thanks for indulging more of my weird historical Klaine musings. ~Grazie