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.
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)