Sèvres - Poelenburgh - Parmigianino - Bloch

Sèvres Manufactory
Covered Urn
ca. 1925-30
glazed earthenware
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Sèvres Manufactory
Monteith
1765
porcelain
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Sèvres Manufactory
Monumental Vase
ca. 1855
porcelain
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Sèvres Manufactory
Wall Sconce
ca. 1761
porcelain and gilt bronze
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Portrait Study of a Girl
ca. 1640-50
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Children of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen
ca. 1630
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Lot and his Daughters
(Lot's wife in background as a pillar of salt)
ca. 1630
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Overgrown Rocks
before 1667
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Holy Family
before 1540
drawing
(owned in the 17th century by painter Peter Lely)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Half-Length Study of a Woman
ca. 1530
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
The Annunciation
ca. 1527-30
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Virgin and Child viewed by a Pious Monk
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Ernest Bloch
Head
ca. 1925-28
watercolor and gouache on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Ernest Bloch
Dream Through Sponginess
ca. 1927-30
watercolor on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Ernest Bloch
Primeval Gathering of Strength
ca. 1927-30
watercolor on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Ernest Bloch
American Woman
ca. 1925-26
watercolor on paper
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

from The Sea and the Mirror

Sing first that green remote Cockaigne
     Where whiskey-rivers run,
And every gorgeous number may
     Be laid by anyone;

For medicine and rhetoric

     Lie mouldering on shelves,
While sad young dogs and stomach-aches

     Love no one but themselves. 

Tell them of witty angels who
     Come only to the beasts,
Of Heirs Apparent who prefer
     Low dives to formal feasts;

For shameless Insecurity
     Prays for a boot to lick,
And many a sore bottom finds
     A sorer one to kick.

Wind up, though, on a moral note: –

     That Glory will go bang,

Schoolchildren shall co-operate,
     And honest rogues must hang;
Because our sound committee man
     Has murder in his heart:
But should you catch a living eye,
     Just wink as you depart.

– W.H. Auden (1942-44)