Ancient Celtic Culture Head (object of veneration within a shrine) AD 100-300 sandstone Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Anonymous British Artist Head of a Bishop (fragment of choir stall) 14th-15th century oak Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Anonymous German Artist Towel Holder with Fool and Old Woman ca. 1520-25 carved and painted oak (pole missing) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous German Artist Vanitas Head ca. 1600-1650 ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Anonymous French Artist Head of an Apostle ca. 1210 limestone (detached from Notre Dame Cathedral during the French Revolution) Art Institute of Chicago |
Anonymous French Artist Head of King David ca. 1145 limestone (detached from Notre Dame Cathedral during the French Revolution) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Giovanni Pisano Prophet Haggai ca. 1285-97 marble (fragment of full-length statue from façade of Siena Cathedral) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Anonymous French Artist Head of Christ ca. 1700 marble relief Detroit Institute of Arts |
Louis-François Roubiliac Portrait Bust of Alexander Pope 1741 marble Yale Center for British Art |
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer Head of an Angel ca. 1750 carved, painted and gilded wood Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
William Rush Bust of Linnaeus ca. 1812 carved and painted pine National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Jacob Epstein Mrs Emily Chadbourne 1910 alabaster Tate Gallery |
Edward Lanteri The Sacristan 1917 stone Tate Gallery |
William Theed Personification of Autumn 1856 marble (purchased by Queen Victoria) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
William Theed Personification of Spring 1856 marble (purchased by Queen Victoria) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
from Variations done for Gerald Van De Wiele
I. Le Bonheur
dogwood flakes
what is green
what is green
the petals
from the apple
blow on the road
mourning doves
mark the sway
of the afternoon, bees
dig the plum blossoms
the morning
stands up straight, the night
is blue from the full of the April moon
iris and lilac, birds
birds, yellow flowers
white flowers . . .
– Charles Olson (1956)