Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Head of Goliath - II

Andrea del Verrocchio
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1465
bronze statue
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Bartolomeo Bellano
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1470-80
bronze statuette
(gilt at later date)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Marcantonio Raimondi
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1506
engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lucas van Leyden
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1514
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jacob Binck
David with the Head of Goliath
1530
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jan Saenredam after Lucas van Leyden
David with the Head of Goliath
1600
engraving
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Pieter Serwouters after Lucas van Leyden
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620
engraving
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Tanzio da Varallo
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Valentin de Boulogne
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-22
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Claude Vignon
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-23
oil on canvas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Giuseppe Caletti (il Cremonese)
David carrying the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-30
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giuseppe Caletti (il Cremonese)
David contemplating the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-30
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giuseppe Caletti (il Cremonese)
David carrying the Head of Goliath
ca. 1630-40
etching and drypoint
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Alessandro Turchi
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
private collection

Pierre Brébiette
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1630
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pieter de Grebber
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

from In the House of Wax

The rooms are large and numerous,
and we in our restless striding
find that they never end.

It is as if we had lived here
always, captive to this endless
and malign instruction;
had served those mighty tempers,
and learned too well
these never-blotted names.

And we live here still,
sharing these murderous spaces,
this blood-haunted silence. 

– John Haines (1996)