Monday, April 29, 2024

Carven Heads

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

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)