Obscure

Georg Oddner
Sailor Dancing, Kiev
1955
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Thomas Ochsenbrunner
Julius Caesar
1494
hand-colored woodcut and letterpress
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Louis Oppenheim
Everclean - Travel Underwear for Gentlemen
1912-
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II
(posthumous portrait)
1840
oil on canvas
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt

Johann Friedrich Overbeck
Study of Italian Model in Rome
1810
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Lelio Orsi
Fable of the Singing Shell
ca. 1563-64
drawing (print study)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Adam Friedrich Oeser
Sculpture Studio with Putti
ca. 1760
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hans Jakob Oeri
Portrait of Henriette Ernst Cramer
1823
lithograph
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Wijbrant Oosterdijk
Study of Standing Youth
ca. 1670
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Georg Oehme
Self Portrait
1910
oil on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Jacob Ochtervelt
Street Musicians at the Door
1665
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Bernard van Orley
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Tranquillo Orsi
Courtyard of the Doge's Palace, Venice
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna 

John Opie
Portrait of Peter Pindar
1780
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Emil Orlik
Secession Ball, Prague
1899
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

John O'Reilly
Black Vase
2016
collage of printed paper
with added drawing and pigments
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts

How long shall I bear with thee, thus laughing only and never uttering a word?  Tell me this plainly, Pasiphilus.  I entreat and thou laughest; I entreat again and no answer; I weep and thou laughest.  Cruel boy, is this a laughing matter?

So soon now thou rushest to the wars, still an ignorant boy and delicate.  What art thou doing?  Ho! look to it, change thy resolve.  Alas! who persuaded thee to grasp the spear!  Who bad thee take the shield in thy hand or hide that head in a helmet?  Most blessed he, whoe'er he be, who, some new Achilles, shall take his pleasure in the tent with such a Patroclus!   

Thou art not in fetters for stealing the fire, ill-advised Prometheus, but because thou didst spoil the clay of Zeus.  In moulding men thou didst add hairs, and hence comes the horrible beard, and hence boys' legs grow rough.  For this thou art devoured by Zeus' eagle, which carried off Ganymede; for the beard is a torment to Zeus, too.

Hie thee to holy Heaven, eagle; away, bearing the boy, thy twin wings outspread.  Go, holding tender Ganymede, and let him not drop, the ministrant of Zeus' sweetest cups.  And take heed not to make the boy bleed with the crooked claws of thy feet, lest Zeus, sore aggrieved thereby, suffer pain.  

We walk together in a good path, Diphilus, and take thou thought how it shall continue to be even as it was from the beginning.  To the lot of each has fallen a winged thing; for in thee is beauty and in me love; but both are fugitive.  Now they remain in unison for a season, but if they do not guard one another they take wing and are gone.   

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