Ornamental

Monogrammist I.G. (Netherlandish printmaker)
Candelabrum with Paired Chimerical Creatures
ca. 1500-1525
engraving
British Museum

Master of Claude de France (French painter)
Scotch Thistle
ca. 1510-1515
gouache on vellum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist H.L. (German printmaker)
Cupid balancing on Globe
before 1533
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist H.L. (German printmaker)
Cupid with Torch
before 1533
engraving
British Museum

Master of the Die (Italian printmaker)
Sacrifice to Priapus
ca. 1530-60
engraving
British Museum

Isaac de Moucheron
Terrace giving onto a Lake
before 1744
watercolor on paper
British Museum

John Hamilton Mortimer
Griffin with Skeleton of Lamb
ca. 1770-75
drawing
British Museum

Henry Monnier
Une Représentation
(series, Galerie Théâtrale)
ca. 1828
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Albert Joseph Moore
The Muses
1868
drawing
(book illustration for Milton's Ode on the Nativity)
British Museum

Gustave Moreau
Hesiod
ca. 1880-85
watercolor and gouache on paper
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Frederick Marschall
Tapestry Room - Château de Fontainebleau
ca. 1885
watercolor on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Berthe Morisot
The Lesson in the Garden
1886
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Domenico Mortellito
Woman and Ram
ca. 1934-35
lacquered linoleum relief
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Kolomon Moser
Vienna Moderne: 1898-1918
(exhibition at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston)
1979
offset-lithograph
(poster reproducing Moser illustration)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Müller-Brockmann
Hans Arp, Hugo Ball - Kunsthaus Zürich
1986
offset-lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Beatriz Milhazes
The Four Seasons
1997
acrylic paint and felt pen on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Beatriz Milhazes
Carioca Landscape
2000
acrylic paint and felt pen on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

That glorious Form, that Light unsufferable,

And that far-beaming blaze of Majesty,

Wherewith He wont at Heaven's high council-table

To sit the midst of Trinal Unity,

He laid aside; and here with us to be

    Forsook the courts of everlasting day,

And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay. 

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein

Afford a present to the Infant God? 

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome Him to this His new abode,

Now while the Heaven, by the Sun's team untrod, 

    Hath took no print of the approaching light,

And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright?

See how from far upon the eastern road

The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet!

O run, prevent them with thy humble ode,

And lay it lowly at His blessed feet;

Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet,

    And join thy voice unto the angel quire,

From out His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.

– John Milton (1629)