Aspirants

Andy Warhol
Gilbert and George
1975
screenprints on canvases
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Monogrammist FVB (Netherlandish printmaker)
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1480-90
engraving
British Museum

Marten de Vos the Elder
St Paul bitten by a Viper on the island of Malta
ca. 1568-70
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Funerary Plaque with Arms of the Doria
ca. 1485
marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Andy Warhol
Jackie Curtis
1974
Polaroid
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Monogrammist AG (German printmaker)
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1450-1500
engraving
British Museum

Anonymous French Sculptor
Serpent
ca. 1585-1600
glazed earthenware
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Escutcheon with Chigi coat-of-arms
ca. 1600-1650
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Andy Warhol
Leontyne Price
1972
Polaroid
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Monogrammist M (Netherlandish printmaker)
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1500-1525
hand-colored engraving
British Museum

workshop of Paul de Vos
Animals preparing to enter Noah's Ark
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Equestrian Portrait of Roberto Malatesta
ca. 1482-84
marble relief
(appropriated by Scipione Borghese from the Vatican
and then by Napoleon from Villa Borghese in Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Andy Warhol
Man Ray
1974
screenprints on canvases
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Monogrammist HL (German printmaker)
St George and the Dragon
before 1533
engraving
British Museum

workshop of Paul de Vos
Earthly Paradise
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Dragon supporting Coat-of-Arms
ca. 1700
marble relief with pietra dura
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Andy Warhol
Camouflage
1986
screenprints on canvases
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Epitaph on Charles I

Great, good and just, could I but rate

My grief to thy too-rigid fate!

I'd weep the world in such a strain

As it would once deluge again:

But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies

More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,

I'll tune thy elegies to trumpet sounds,

And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.

– James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650)