Monday, April 13, 2026

Obvious

Nathan Oliveira
White Lady
1964
lithograph
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Matthias Oesterreich after Giovanni Battista Internari
Allegorical Figure with Bird and Anchor
1749
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Portrait of a Pilgrim
1730
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Walter Ophey
Floral Still Life
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Design for Fountain
before 1742
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jan van Ossenbeck
Cephalus and Procris
ca. 1655-60
engraving
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Adriaen van Ostade
Painter's Studio
ca. 1649
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Peter Overadt (publisher)
Mary Magdalen in her Finery
ca. 1610
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Jürgen Ovens
Portrait of a Nobleman
ca. 1640-50
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Girolamo Olgiati
The printer Aldus Manutius of Venice
(posthumous portrait)
1568
engraving
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig

Friedrich Oelenhainz
Portrait of Johann Nepomuk
1770
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Maria van Oosterwyck
Floral Still Life
ca. 1685-90
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti)
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1524-27
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Peter Oliver
Women in a Landscape
ca. 1630
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os
Bouquet
ca. 1830
watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Jean Osouf
Youth in the Catalan Resistance
ca. 1943-44
bronze
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

That an immature boy should do despite to his insensible age carries more disgrace to the friend who tempts him than to himself, and for a grown-up youth to submit to sodomy, his season for which is past, is twice as disgraceful to him who consents as it is to his tempter.  But there is a time, Moeris, when it is no longer unseemly in the one, and not yet so in the other, as is the case with you and me at present. 

Who can tell if his beloved begins to pass his prime, if he is ever with him and never separated?  Who that pleased yesterday can fail to please to-day, and if he please now, what can befall him to make him displease to-morrow?

What a good goddess is that Nemesis, to avert whom, dreading her as she treadeth behind us, we spit in our bosom!  Thou didst not see her at thy heels, but didst think that for ever thou shouldst posses thy grudging beauty.  Now it has perished utterly; the very wrathful goddess has come, and we, thy servants, now pass thee by.  

If beauty grows old, give me of it ere it depart; but if it remains with thee, why fear to give what shall remain thine?

A pair of brothers love me.  I know not which of them I should decide to take for my master, for I love them both.  One goes away from me and the other approaches.  The best of the one is his presence, the best of the other my desire for him in his absence.

Theodorus, as once Idomeneus brought from Crete to Troy Meriones to be his squire, such a dexterous friend have I in thee; for Meriones was in some things his servant, in others his minion.  And do thou, too, all day go about the business of my life, but at night, by Heaven, let us essay Meriones.

 – from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)