Anonymous Lombard Artist Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1500 tempera on panel (originally an ornamental ceiling component) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous Lombard Artist Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1500 tempera on panel (originally an ornamental ceiling component) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Jacopo Tintoretto Head of a Roman Emperor ca. 1550 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Richard Cockle Lucas Classical Head and Winged Deity ca. 1840-65 ivory plaque Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Daniel Somerville Classical Head 1820 woodcut Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
John Singer Sargent Head Studies for Apollo and the Muses ca. 1921 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Bartolomeo Passarotti Head of a Satyr ca. 1575-80 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Alphonse Legros Head of a Satyr (Fountain) 1883 etching Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Stanislaus Brien Pan 1928 linocut Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Satyr ca. 1560 bronze Yale University Art Gallery |
Hubert von Herkomer Bacchante 1897 enamel on copper Yale Center for British Art |
Girolamo della Robbia Bust of a Roman ca. 1525 glazed terracotta Cleveland Museum of Art |
Giovanni da Cavino Head of Cosimo Scapti ca. 1540 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Agostino Carracci Head of Wind God ca. 1597-99 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
"Why do you live in that shack?"
"It doesn't matter to me where I work. I've told you. All I want is peace of mind. I'm studious."
"Scholarly," said the inspector dreamily.
"No, studious. I can afford to study and speculate without achieving results."
– Muriel Spark, from The Only Problem (1984)