Monday, February 17, 2025

Group Compositions

Nicolò dell'Abate
Group of Figures
ca. 1555
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Group of Five Figures
17th century
drawing
Biblioteca Reale, Turin

Anonymous Photographer
Group of Athletes
ca. 1880
tintype
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Bacchus with Group of Followers
ca. 1795
drawing
Courtauld Gallery, London

attributed to Giulio Campi
Group of Figures with Bound Prisoners
ca. 1550
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

François Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin
Apollo attended by the Muses
ca. 1666-74
marble statue group
Château de Versailles

Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco (Jacone)
Group of Figures
ca. 1520-30
drawing
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe,
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Sketch of Seated Group
1910
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Master FP
Group at an Altar
ca. 1530-50
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

François Perrier
Niobids
(ancient Roman sculpture group in Florence)
1638
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Carlo Raimondi after Correggio
Group of Apostles from the Cupola of Parma Cathedral
1841
watercolor
(print study)
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

P.C. Skovgaard
Group of Girls Walking
1855
oil on canvas
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino
Group of Figures
ca. 1725
chiaroscuro woodcut
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anthony van Dyck
Family Group
ca. 1634-35
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet
Family Group
1812
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Hans Bock the Elder
The Farnese Bull
(ancient Roman sculpture group in Naples)
1583
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

from Comparative Mythography

Each day brings less, now, 
to believe. Knowledge means

not that it is true, but that it works:
the elimination of air in a jar
makes smoke trickle downwards,

boils cool water,
silences the tongues of bells.
It takes the strength of sixteen horses

to part a pair of bronze hemispheres
with nothing between them,
thus proving that nothing exists.

– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)