Nicolai Abildgaard The Wounded Philoctetes 1775 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
Arthur Putnam Study of Model ca. 1906-1908 drawing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
Walter Shirlaw Académie ca. 1870 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
Albrecht Dürer The Desperate Man ca. 1515 etching National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
Anonymous British Artist after William Etty The Combat ca. 1840 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
Amedeo Modigliani Caryatid ca. 1914 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
Amedeo Modigliani Caryatid 1914 drawing, with watercolor Denver Art Museum |
Anonymous East Indian Artist Copulation with Facsimile Partners early 20th century gouache on paper Wellcome Collection, London |
Max Weber Figure Study 1911 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
Keith Vaughan Figures ca. 1960 oil on paper Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Wilfred Avery Two Figures Undressing 1992 drawing Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon |
Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries Roman abducting a Sabine Woman ca. 1595-1600 engraving Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries Roman abducting a Sabine Woman ca. 1595-1600 engraving Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries Roman abducting a Sabine Woman ca. 1595-1600 engraving Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
William Blake Richmond Falling Figure ca. 1880 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Pat Douthwaite The End of the World 1970 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
from Fiascherino
Glare
Pierces muslin; its broken rays
Hovering in trembling filaments
Glance on the ceiling with no more substance
Than a bee's wing. Thickening, these
Hovering in trembling filaments
Glance on the ceiling with no more substance
Than a bee's wing. Thickening, these
Hang down over the pink walls
In green bars, and, flickering between them,
A moving fan of two colours,
The sea unrolls and rolls itself into the low room.
A moving fan of two colours,
The sea unrolls and rolls itself into the low room.
– Charles Tomlinson (1955)