Leonardo's Neapolitan Assistant in Milan

Francesco Galli known as Napoletano
oil on panel
Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci
circa 1495 Milan

Madonna Lia 

Angel playing Vielle

Leonardo's Spanish Assistants

Mona Lisa & Salvador del Mundo from the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, possibly painted by Hernando de los Llanos or Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, the two assistants from Spain who worked with Leonardo on the Battle of Anghiari.  One of them may also have painted the study or copy of the central figures of the mural, known as the Tavola Doria

Young Men in Rome, Naples & Pompeii

photographed by Guglielmo Plüschow 
(18 August 1852 – 3 January 1930)

Plüschow moved to Rome and took up photography around the age of twenty, where he became well known for his pictures of naked youths, mostly male. His cousin, the soon more famous Wilhelm von Gloeden, followed him there in 1877, taking up residence first in Naples and later in Taormina, Sicily.  Plüschow is said to have taught von Gloeden the art of photography only to be overshadowed by him, which is partly true.  Vincenzo Galdi is also closely, even more closely, associated with Plüschow.  Twenty years his junior, Galdi worked as a model for both cousins, as an assistant to Plüschow and he was widely believed to be the elder’s lover.  Plüschow  was imprisoned for eight months in 1902 for solicitation and was arrested again in 1907 and 1910, after which he left Italy for good, returning to Berlin.  His photos of male nudes posed in the ruins of Pompeii and environs are perhaps more ghostly than intended and are among my favorite pictures of their kind.

Young Men in Naples & Pompeii

photographed by Vincenzo Galdi 
(11 October 1871 - 20 December 1961)

Galdi was a frequent model for Wilhelm von Gloeden and Guglielmo Plüschow and Plüschow was likely his lover as well as his mentor, but the younger man was already trained in photography and optics at the Naples’ Institute of Fine Arts and had worked in the studio of Giorgio Sommer. Unlike his German cohorts, however, Galdi was Italian, Neapolitan precisely.  Galdi is credited with showing erections on his often well endowed models. There’s even one of a boy kissing the head of his very long dick. His collaboration with Plüschow, in Rome, lasted from 1895 until Galdi’s marriage to Virginia Guglielmi in 1902. He turned to art dealing after the crack down on their collective erotic artistic enterprise, remained married, despite keeping a much younger male lover, and lived a long life.

Winter Paintings, Drawings & Collages,

Jim Dine
Putney VT

1.Putney Winter Heart #3 (Garbage Can) 

2.Putney Winter Heart #8 (Skier)

3.Regretting the Possible

4.Child in Winter

 5.Winter Tools

6.the Crommelynk Gate (the yearly Cry of the Women)

7.Red Scarf

8Jessie 

9.It creases so easily

10.A Side of however you are