Ornamental

Master of Claude de France (French painter)
Rose
ca. 1510-15
gouache on vellum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist P.S. (Italian printmaker)
Sections of Entablature (Capitol, Rome)
1537
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist P.S. (Italian printmaker)
Sections of Entablature
(Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome)
1537
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist H.F.E. (Italian printmaker)
Sea Deities
before 1550
engraving
British Museum

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder
Bâtiments à Plaisir
ca. 1565-75
ink and watercolor on vellum
British Museum

Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck
Colossal Statue of Zeus at Olympia
1572
hand-colored engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Ambrogio Giovanni Figino after Polidoro da Caravaggio
External Friezes on Palazzo Madama, Rome
ca. 1580-90
drawing
British Museum

Ambrogio Giovanni Figino after Polidoro da Caravaggio
External Friezes on Palazzo near Chiesa Sant'Agata, Rome
ca. 1580-90
drawing
British Museum

Ambrogio Giovanni Figino after Polidoro da Caravaggio
External Friezes on Palazzo Ricci, Rome
ca. 1580-90
drawing
British Museum

Giovanni Battista Falda
Scala Reggia at the Vatican
1665
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Monogrammist J.B. (British printmaker)
Leap Frog
(satire against Napoleon)
1804
hand-colored etching
British Museum

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Teatro Greco, Taormina
ca. 1895
modern gelatin silver print from glass negative
Denver Art Museum

Ethel Gabain
Colombine à Paris
1916
lithograph
British Museum

Milton Glaser
Sony Tape - Full Color Sound
1979
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Audrey Flack
Banana Split Sundae
1980
lithograph and screenprint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

David Lance Goines
Consumers Union - Consumer Reports
1986
screenprint (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Ring out, ye crystal spheres,

Once bless our human ears

    (If ye have power to touch our senses so),

And let your silver chime

Move in melodious time,

    And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow;

And with your ninefold harmony

Make up full consort to th' angelic symphony. 

For if such holy song

Enwrap our fancy long,

    Time will run back and fetch the age of gold,

And speckled vanity

Will sicken soon, and die, 

    And lep'rous sin will melt from earthly mould,

And Hell itself will pass away

And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 

– John Milton (1629)