Saturday, January 28, 2023

Endymion, Selene, Lucretia, Bacchus, Ariadne, Cleopatra

Anne-Louis Girodet
Sleeping Endymion
1791
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Corneille van Clève
Selene and Endymion
ca. 1704
bronze statuette
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Michele Tosini
Lucretia
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Yale University Art Gallery

Pierre Mignard
Death of Lucretia
before 1695
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Turchi
Lucretia and Tarquin
before 1649
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giulio Carpioni
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1650-55
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

Nicolò dell'Abate
Bacchus
ca. 1550
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Corneille van Clève
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1704
bronze statuette
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Giulio Romano
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1527
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Palma il Giovane
Bacchus and Ariadne
before 1628
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Francesco del Pedro after Jacopo Tintoretto
Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1790
etching and engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Sebastiano Ricci
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1700-1710
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Rosso Fiorentino
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1525-30
oil on panel
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Antonio Molinari
Cleopatra dissolving the Pearl
before 1704
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giuseppe Mazzuoli
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1713
terracotta
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Mazzuoli
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1713
terracotta
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Narcissus and the Star

I will not look within
Where at the hot pit hisses
That diet of worms and a daimon
Adoring his mirror twin
More than any Narcissus
The issue of his semen. 

But as the first and last
Dead suns rise and set
Over and hereafter
The sweet star and the past,
Glory without regret
All things ever after. 

– George Barker (1956)