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| Yayoi Kusama Shoe 1965 leather, textiles, paint Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Yayoi Kusama Flower 1954 gouache and charcoal on paper Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Yayoi Kusama Self Portrait in the Studio, New York 1963 gelatin silver print Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Yayoi Kusama Love is Calling 2013 gallery installation Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Paul Cézanne Figure Studies and Self Portrait ca. 1883 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Paul Cézanne Study after the Sculpture of Hercules by Pierre Puget in the Louvre ca. 1882-84 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Paul Cézanne Study after the Sculpture of Milo of Croton by Pierre Puget in the Louvre ca. 1879-80 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Paul Cézanne Study of Falling Figure ca. 1866-70 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Portrait of an Art Collector – Giovan Donato Correggio as Perseus ca. 1631 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Bernardo Strozzi St John the Evangelist ca. 1625 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Workshop Youth posed as Salvator Mundi ca. 1618 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Bernardo Strozzi David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1635 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Alfonso Ruspagiari Portrait of a Woman before 1576 lead medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alfonso Ruspagiari Portrait of Lucia Ruspagiari before 1576 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alfonso Ruspagiari Portrait of Camilla Ruggeri before 1576 lead medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alfonso Ruspagiari Portrait of Camilla Ruggeri before 1576 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
from Portrait of the Queen in Tears
. . . I have not always lived like this,
You know. And yet my sequined, consequential past
Enables me to bear these shrieking nights
And disasters. I do not mean you. No, you, love,
Enables me to bear these shrieking nights
And disasters. I do not mean you. No, you, love,
Are as delightful as those coupled dancers strung
Like hand props down the back lawn
Of my former mansion,
Wherever that was, or as I was
When my mother's boys would rise and stir
When my mother's boys would rise and stir
Like dogs for me, make offers,
Women oozing from their stays
Go wild . . . I also was a hot property in those days.
– Louise Glück (1968)