Hannah Höch Creatures ca. 1926-29 oil on canvas Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
Hannah Höch Cut with the Kitchen Knife 1919 collage of printed papers Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Hannah Höch Liebe 1931 collage of printed papers National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Hannah Höch Man and Machine 1921 oil on canvas Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
Anonymous Italian Maker Toilette Mirror ca. 1750 painted and gilded wood with mirror Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Anonymous Italian Maker Vitrine ca. 1750 painted and gilded poplar and glass Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Anonymous Italian Maker Vitrine 18th century painted and gilded wood and glass Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Anonymous Italian Maker Frame 17th century ebony veneer, ivory, lapis lazuli, flint Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio) Arria and Paetus 1645 oil on canvas private collection |
Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio) Farewell of Hector and Andromache before 1654 oil on canvas Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice |
Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio) Incarnation of God the Father ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas (altarpiece) Basilica di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome |
Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio) Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1640 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Two Women with Children before 1666 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Half-Length Study of Young Woman before 1666 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Penitent Magdalen ca. 1645-50 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Evangelist meditating the Gospel ca. 1645-50 drawing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Gemini
There is a soul in me
It is asking
to be given its body
It is asking
to be given blue eyes
a skull matted
with black hair
that shape
already formed & detaching
So the past put forth
a house filled with
asters & white lilac
*
a child
in her cotton dress
the lawn, the copper beech –
such of my own lives
I have cast off – the sunlight
chipping at the curtains
& the wicker chairs
uncovered, winter after winter,
as the stars finally
thicken & descend as snow
– Louise Glück (1975)