Sunday, January 12, 2025

Left-Facing - I

Peter Paul Rubens
Head of a Sphinx
before 1640
drawing
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Andrea Mantegna
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Stephan Bundi
Geschlossene Gesellschaft
(Sartre's No Exit)
2010
screenprint (poster)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

John William Waterhouse
Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1890
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1540
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Artist
Classical Head with Laurel Wreath
16th century
marble relief
Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania

Robert Caumont
Madeleine Collasson with an Earring
1919
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Gottlieb Schick
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Vermay
ca. 1800-1802
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous German Artist
Portrait of Willibald Pirckheimer
1503
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Stefano della Bella
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1650
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Study of a Model
ca. 1819
drawing
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Benigno Bossi
Head of a Youth
1755
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Alexandre-Denis Abel de Pujol
Classical Head
1812
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Anonymous Italian Artist
Profile Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici
ca. 1475-1500
marble relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Angelika Tischbein after Raphael
Head of Figure from The Transfiguration
1824
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Frans Floris
Sea God
(study head)
ca. 1565
oil on panel
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Thunder. Enter Lucifer and foure devils [above].
           Faustus to them with this speech –

Now that the gloomy shadow of the night,
Longing to view Orions drisling looke,
Leapes from th'Antarticke world unto the skie,
And dyms the Welkin, with her pitchy breathe:
Faustus, begin thine Incantations,
And try if devils will obey thy Hest,
Seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them.
Within this circle is Jehova's Name,
Forward, and backward, Anagramatis'd:
Th'abreviated names of holy Saints,
Figures of every adjunct to the heavens,
And Characters of Signes, and erring Starres,
By which the spirits are inforc'd to rise:
Then feare not Faustus to be resolute
And try the utmost Magicke can performe.

– Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act I, scene iii (1592)