Saturday, March 7, 2026

Duos

Cristofano Robetta
Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel
(adult figures based on antique sculpture fragments)
ca. 1490
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna


Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Adam and Eve after the Fall
ca. 1545
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis van Haarlem
Adam and Eve
1622
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacob Gole
The Duet
ca. 1680
mezzotint
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Claude-Marie Dubufe
Sketch for Adam and Eve
1827
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Claude-Marie Dubufe
Adam and Eve
1827
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Antoine-Jean Gros
Acis and Galatea
1833
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Lothar von Seebach
Adam and Eve
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg

Arthur Crisp
Adam and Eve
ca. 1918
oil on board
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Marguerite Zorach
Edith Halpert in her Downtown Gallery
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Torrie
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
1939
tricolor carbro print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mytrice Snead West
Adam and Eve
ca. 1950
oil and acrylic on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

John Buckland Wright
Adam and Eve naming the Animals
1951
wood-engraving
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Victor Joseph Gatto
Adam and Eve
before 1965
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Angela Palladino
The Terrace
1970
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Roger Ballen
Man and Woman in Boarding House, Western Transvaal
1992
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Peter Churcher
A Strange Hot Night
1997
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Loves Horoscope.

Love, brave vertues younger Brother,
Erst hath made my Heart a Mother,
Shee consults the conscious Spheares,
To calculate her young sons yeares.
Shee askes if sad, or saving powers,
Gave Omen to his infant howers,
Shee askes each starre that then stood by,
If poore Love shall live or dye. 

Ah, my Heart, is that the way?
Are these the Beames that rule the Day?
Thou know'st a Face in whose each looke,
Beauty layes ope loves Fortune-booke,
On whose faire revolutions wait
The obsequious motions of Loves fate,
Ah, my Heart, her eyes and shee,
Have taught thee new Astrology.
How e're Loves native houres were set,
What ever starry Synod met,
'Tis in the mercy of her eye,
If poore Love shall live or dye. 

If those sharpe Rayes putting on
Points of Death bid Love be gone
(Though the Heavens in counsell sate,
To crowne an uncontrouled Fate,
Though their best Aspects twin'd upon
The kindest Constellation,
Cast amorous glances on his Birth,
And whisper'd the confederate Earth
To pave his pathes with all the good
That warmes the Bed of youth and blood)
Love ha's no plea against her eye;
Beauty frownes, and Love must dye.

But if her milder influence move;
And guild the hopes of humble Love
(Though heavens inauspicious eye
Lay blacke on loves Nativitye;
Though every Diamond in Loves crowne
Fixt his forehead to a frowne)
Her Eye a strong appeale can give,
Beauty smiles, and love shall live.

O if Love shall live, ô where
But in her Eye, or in her Eare,
In her Breast, or in her Breath,
Shall I hide poore Love from Death?
For in the life ought else can give,
Love shall dye, although he live.

Or if Love shall dye, ô where
But in her Eye, or in her Eare,
In her Breath, or in her Breast,
Shall I build his funerall Nest?
While Love shall thus entombed lye,
Love shall live, although he dye. 

– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)