Zurbarán - Allard - Warhol - Dior

Francisco de Zurbarán
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1627
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Francisco de Zurbarán
St Hugo in the Refectory
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

Francisco de Zurbarán
Portrait of a Doctor of Law
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
Boston

Francisco de Zurbarán
Still Life
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Jules Allard et Fils (Paris)
Garden Urn in 18th-century style
ca. 1890
limestone
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Jules Allard et Fils (Paris)
Garden Urn after Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
ca. 1890
marble
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Jules Allard et Fils (Paris)
Personification of Winter
in 18th-century style
ca. 1900
marble bust on pedestal
Newport Mansions Preservation Society,
Rhode Island

Jules Allard et Fils (Paris)
Personification of Spring
in 18th-century style
ca. 1900
marble bust on pedestal
Newport Mansions Preservation Society,
Rhode Island

Andy Warhol
Twelve Jackies
1964
screenprint
Art Institute of Chicago

Andy Warhol
Jackie
1970
screenprint
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Andy Warhol
Sixteen Jackies
1964
acrylic and enamel on canvas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Andy Warhol
Silver Liz as Cleopatra
1963
screenprint, with added spraypaint
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Christian Dior
Evening Gown
1947
silk satin
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Christian Dior
Evening Gown
1952
beaded and embroidered acetate satin
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Christian Dior
Cocktail Dress
1955
silk tulle with copper sequins and velvet ribbon
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Christian Dior
Bat mitzvah Dress
1957
embroidered cotton organdy
(made to order)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety 

     So, arriving two and two at the rival ports, they complete the second stage of their journey.

Rosetta says:
     These ancient harbors are hailed by the morning
          Light that untidies
     Warehouses and wharves and wilder rocks
          Where intolerant lives
     Fight and feed on the fucoid thickets
          Of popular pools.

Emble says:
     Reflected fleets, feeling in awe
          Of their sheltered lagoons,
     Stand still, a steady congregation
          Of gigantic shadows;
     Derricks on these docks adore in silence
          The noon they denote.

Malin says:
     Quiet falls the dusk at this queasy juncture
          Of water and earth,
     And lamps are lit on the long esplanade;
          Urgent whispers
     Promise peace, and impatience shakes
          Ephemeral flesh.

And Quant says:
     As, far from furniture and formal gardens
          The desperate spirit
     Thinks of its end in the third person,
          As a speck drowning
     In those wanton mansions where the whales take
          Their huge fruitions.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)