Sunday, June 18, 2017

Twos

Pier Francesco Mola
Two studies for the figure of Joseph
1655
drawing
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

attributed to Camillo Procaccini
Heads of two youths
ca. 1587-95
drawing
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Two Lovers
1850
drawing
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

SONNET: THE DOUBLE ROCK

Since thou hast viewed some Gorgon, and art grown
      A solid stone,
To bring again to softness thy hard heart
      Is past my art.
Ice may relent to water in a thaw;
But stone made flesh love's chemistry ne'er saw.

Therefore by thinking on thy hardness, I
      Will petrify;
And so within our double quarry's womb
      Dig our love's tomb.
Thus strangely will our difference agree,
And, with ourselves, amaze the world, to see
How both revenge and sympathy consent
To make two rocks each other's monument.

 Henry King (1657)

John William Waterhouse
Echo and Narcissus
1903
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Maerten de Vos
Venus and Adonis
before 1603
oil on panel
private collection

Edvard Munch
Death and Life
1894
oil on canvas
Munch Museum, Oslo

Winslow Homer
Two figures by the sea
1882
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Geroge Hendrik Breitner
Gust of wind
ca. 1886-98
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands

Marie and P.S. Krøyer
Double portrait of Marie and P.S. Krøyer
(the couple have portrayed one another)

1890
canvas
Skagens Museum, Denmark

Jacques Blanchard
Mars and the Vestal Virgin
1638
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

attributed to Gonzales Coques
Portrait of married couple in a park
1662
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

José Echenagusía
Samson and Delilah
1887
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Felice Ficherelli
Antiochus, Prince of Syria, and Stratonica, his stepmother
ca. 1638
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Sebastiano Ricci
Angelica and Medoro
ca. 1716
oil on canvas
Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania