Monday, December 1, 2025

Ornamental

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini
Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints
before 1415
tempera and gold on panel
Campion Hall, University of Oxford


Albrecht Dürer
Kneeling Youth and Executioner
ca. 1493
drawing
British Museum

Lorenzo Costa
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio
The Annunciation
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Pieve di San Pietro a Pitiana, Reggello

Cristofano Gherardi
The Visitation
ca. 1541-45
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy
St Margaret
ca. 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Lievin Cruyl
Antonine Column in Piazza Colonna, Rome
1666
etching
British Museum

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio)
Thanks Offering of Noah
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

John Sell Cotman
Fire at the Vinegar Works on the River Wensum at Norwich
1829
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Johan Christian Dahl
Landscape with Pedersborg Church
1832
oil on canvas
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Walter Crane
Scene from Bluebeard
1899
watercolor and ink on paper
(design for printed illustration)
British Museum

Walter Crane
Scene from Bluebeard
1899
watercolor and ink on paper
(design for printed illustration)
British Museum

Terry Frost
Alhambra
1972
lithograph
Tate Modern, London

Sam Gilliam
Wissahickon
1975
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jeff Gibson
Hugo
1996
screenprint
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Steve DiBenedetto
Torment of the Metals
2005
oil paint, alkyd paint and oil stick on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Gauri Gill
Untitled (11)
2015
pigment print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford

Here lies wise and valiant dust,
Huddled up 'twixt fit and just:
Strafford, who was hurried hence
'Twixt treason and convenience.
He spent his time here in a mist:
A papist, yet a Calvinist.
His prince's nearest joy, and grief.
He had, yet wanted, all relief.
The prop and ruin of the state;
The people's violent love, and hate:
One in extremes loved and abhorred.
Riddles lie here; or in a word,
Here lies blood, and let it lie
Speechless still, and never cry.

– John Cleveland (1647)