Heavy Titles - VI

Else Marie Hagen
The Average of Four Boys and Their Shadows
2018
C-print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Jenny Holzer
If you're considered useless no one will feed you anymore
1983
gouache on paper
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Ancient Greece
Grave Naiskos of Woman who died in Childbirth
430-425 BC
marble relief
(excavated in Attica)
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

Henri-Joseph Harpignies
From Saint-Privé to Bléneau - Memory of the Yonne
1885
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Abraham Janssens
Allegory of Concord, Charity and Sincerity
conquering Discord
1622
oil on panel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Giovanni Michele Graneri
Drawing of the Lottery in Piazza delle Erbe, Turin
ca. 1756
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Heinrich Hoerle
Monument to the Unknown Prostheses
1930
oil on cardboard
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Asger Jorn
Plein Air with Noseless Horses
1959
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Pieter de Grebber
The Prophet Elisha refusing the Gifts of Naaman
1637
oil on canvas
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Vincenz Georg Kininger
Dream of the Countess of Flanders
(ballet-pantomime Richard Lion Heart by Salvatore Viagnò)
ca. 1795
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Karl Isakson
Arrangement with Aspidistra, Figurine and Books
ca. 1918-20
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Noël Hallé
Scholars of the French Academy at Rome
masquerading as Druids conducting a Mystical Ceremony
ca. 1737-44
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Johann Evangelist Holzer
Pagan Deities rendering Homage
to Barbara Bergmüller
ca. 1732-33
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Wilhelm von Kobell
Rider and Peasant Girls along the River Isar
with view of Munich
1831
watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Wilhelm Kåge
Exhibition of Sacred Art Masterpieces, Uppsala
1917
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Arshile Gorky
Nighttime Enigma and Nostalgia
1932
drawing
Denver Ar -Museum

No finer or more courageous man is held to have existed than Alexander, king of Macedon.  He had a special way of doing everything and found his own qualities always had Providence for a partner.  In face, his wars and battles with any one nation were over before historians had time to gather full information on its cities.  The deeds of Alexander, the excellences of his body and of his soul, his success in his actions, his bravery, are our present subject.  We begin with his family – and the identity of his father.  People generally are under the misapprehension that he was the sone of King Philip.  This is quite wrong.  He was not the child of Philip but rather, as the wisest Egyptians assert, the son of Nektanebos,* conceived after he had been driven from his throne. 

*the last native king of Egypt, expelled by the Persians in 343 BC

– Pseudo-Callisthenes, from The Alexander Romance (2nd-4th century AD), translated from Greek by Ken Dowden (1989)