Saturday, January 11, 2025

Up-Raising

Berthe Morisot
The Cherry Tree
1891
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Sculling Crew
1932
oil on canvas
(cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Hans Baldung
Three Witches
1514
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Félix Bracquemond
The Genius of Fire
1875
gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Maurice Desvallières
Amphora Carrier
1898
lithograph
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino
Birth of the Virgin
1749
chiaroscuro woodcut
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Auguste Rodin
Woman carrying a Boy
ca. 1878-81
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst,
Copenhagen

Giambologna
Abduction of the Sabine Women
1582
terracotta modello
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

François Girardon
Abduction of Proserpine
ca. 1677-87
marble statue group
Château de Versailles

Clodion
Bacchantes
1799
terracotta statuette
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Anonymous Artist working in Padua
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1525-50
bronze statuette
Bode Museum, Berlin

Gustave Moreau
Dejanira carried off by the Centaur Nessus
(Allegory of Autumn)

ca. 1872-73
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Giulio Benso after Michelangelo
Abduction of Ganymede
ca. 1650
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Giulio Romano
Jupiter and Ganymede
1527
drawing
(design for stucco ceiling relief)
Morgan Library, New York

Guido Reni
Crucifixion of St Peter
1604-1605
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Jost Amman
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
before 1591
drawing
Kunsthaus Zürich

Faustus [alone, in his study]:

Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please?
Resolve me of all ambiguities?
Performe what desperate enterprise I will?
I'le have them flie to India for gold;
Ransacke the Ocean for Orient Pearle,
And search all corners of the new-found-world
For pleasant fruits, and Princely delicates.
I'le have them read me strange Philosophy,
And tell the secrets of all forraine Kings:
I'l have them wall all Germany with Brasse,
And make swift Rhine, circle faire Wittenberge:
I'le have them fill the publique Schooles with silke,
Wherewith the Students shall be bravely clad.
I'le leavy souldiers with the coyne they bring,
And chase the Prince of Parma from our Land,
And raigne sole King of all our Provinces.
Yea stranger engines for the brunt of warre,
Then was the fiery keele at Antwerpe bridge,
I'le make my servile spirits to invent. 

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