Threes

Jean Changenet
Three Prophets
ca. 1485-95
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Musée du Louvre

Bartolomeo Neroni (il Riccio)
Three Visions of St Catherine of Siena
ca. 1567
drawing (fresco studies)
British Museum

Mauro Antonio Tesi after Stefano della Bella
Designs for Vases
ca. 1750
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Printmaker
Tomb Painting of Ramesses III adoring Isis and Ptah
ca. 1829-32
hand-colored etching and engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

James Pradier
The Three Graces
1831
marble statue group
Musée du Louvre

Beauvais Manufactory
Folding Screen with Birds
1836
tapestry panels (wool and silk) on wood frame
Musée du Louvre

Julia Margaret Cameron
Daughters of Jerusalem
1865
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Émile Gsell
Femmes du Prince Phra Kéo Pha
1866
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alfred Stieglitz
Luncheon at Lake George
1920
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Marie Laurencin
Reading in a Park
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Charles Pulsford
Three Angels
1949
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Alan Davie
Red Dwarf
1962
oil on canvas (triptych)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

William Gedney
Kentucky
ca. 1966
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Graciela Iturbide
Duelo, Chiapas
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bill Burke
Untitled
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

T.L. Solien
The Three Sailors
1982
lithograph and screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mark Greenwold
Why Not Say What Happened?
2003-2004
oil on panel
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Epitaph on a Betrothed Girl

I am Baukis the bride's.

When you pass this bitter pillar

say to death

under the ground,

'You are envious, oh death';

for they who see

this monument

will know

that the father-in-law

burned the girl

on the pyre 

with the unused torches

of the marriage train.

Oh Hymen

    you have changed the singable bride song

to a dirge. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Lenore Mayhew