Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Right-Facing - II

Wilhelm Trübner
Woman of Brussels
1874
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Bernhard Strigel
Emperor Maximilian I with a Scroll
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Simon Vouet
Minerva
ca. 1637-38
drawing
(study for fresco)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Thomas Couture
Head of a Young Man
ca. 1840
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
Young Woman of Trastavere
ca. 1860
marble
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
Bust of Aristotle
1553
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Albert Edelfelt
Study of Model
ca. 1874-75
oil on panel
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Eugène Delacroix
Portrait of George Sand
1838
oil on canvas
(cut down from joint portrait with Chopin)
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Enea Vico
Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti
1545
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Sandro Botticelli
Idealised Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1480-85
tempera and oil on panel
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Constantijn Huygens
Portrait of Lodewijk Huygens
1669
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Andreas Roht
Portrait of Friedrich III, Elector of Brandenburg
ca. 1695
wax relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Stefano della Bella
Half-Length Study of a Cavalier
ca. 1630-40
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
Disciple
1897
drawing
(study for painting, Supper at Emmaus)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Georges Seurat
Seated Boy with Straw Hat
1883-84
drawing
(study for Bathers at Asnières)
Yale University Art Gallery

Hugh Ramsay
Académie
1895
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Mephostophilis [to Faustus]: 

But now my Faustus, that thou maist perceive,
What Rome containes for to delight thine eyes,
Know that this City stands upon seven hils,
That underprop the ground-worke of the same:
Just through the midst runnes flowing Tybers streame,
With winding bankes that cut it in two parts;
Over the which foure stately Bridges leane,
That make safe passage, to each part of Rome.
Upon the Bridge, call'd Ponte Angelo,
Erected is a Castle passing strong,
Where thou shalt see such store of Ordinance,
As that the double Cannons forg'd of brasse,
Do match the number of the daies contain'd,
Within the compasse of one compleat yeare:
Beside the gates, and high Pyramydes,
That Julius Cæsar brought from Affrica.

– Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus, Act III, scene i (1592)