Louis Anquetin Elegant Woman at the Élysée, Montmartre 1888 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Louis Anquetin Portrait of a Man 1889 pastel on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
Louis Anquetin The Outsider ca. 1895 drawing (print study) Art Institute of Chicago |
Louis Anquetin The Outsider ca. 1895 lithograph British Museum |
Jost Amman Warrior ca. 1570 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Jost Amman Hercules and the Nemean Lion before 1591 drawing Kunsthaus Zürich |
Jost Amman Titan carrying Boulder ca. 1565 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich |
Jost Amman Apollo ca. 1580 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Jean-Michel Basquiat Kings of Egypt II 1982 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Jean-Michel Basquiat Kings of Egypt III 1982 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled 1982 acrylic and oil-stick on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Jean-Michel Basquiat Dog Bite / Ax to Grind 1983 acrylic on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Pieter Aertsen The Pancake Shop 1560 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Pieter Aertsen The Continence of Scipio 1562 drawing British Museum |
Pieter Aertsen Sacrifice of Iphigenia ca. 1555-60 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Pieter Aertsen Christ in the House of Martha and Mary 1553 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Taller To-day
Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings,
Walking together in a windless orchard
Where the brook runs over the gravel, far from the glacier.
Nights come bringing the snow, and the dead howl
Under headlands in their windy dwelling
Because the Adversary put too easy questions
On lonely roads.
But happy now, though no nearer each other,
We see farms lighted all along the valley;
Down at the mill-shed hammering stops
And men go home.
Noises at dawn will bring
Freedom for some, but not this peace
No bird can contradict: passing but here, sufficient now
For something fulfilled this hour, loved or endured.
– W.H. Auden (1928)