Groups

Paul Cadmus
Greenwich Village Cafeteria
1934
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

James Anderson
Decursio Relief, Column of Antoninus Pius, Vatican Courtyard
ca. 1855-60
salted paper print from wet collodion negative
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

William Fettes Douglas
Wishart preaching against Mariolatry
1871
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Industrial Exposition, Peking
1958
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amico Aspertini
Diversion of the River Serchio
ca. 1508-09
oil on plaster (wall painting)
Cappella di Sant'Agostino, Lucca

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann
The People's Bank shortly before the Crash
1877
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Sandro Botticelli
Story of Verginia
(episode in Roman history described by Livy)
ca. 1500-1510
tempera on panel
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Nicola Cianfanelli
Episode from the novel I Promessi Sposi
ca. 1833-37
fresco
Palazzina della Meridiana, Florence

Anonymous French Photographer
Restaurant Fradin, Paris
ca. 1890-
albumen print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous Netherlandish Painter
The Siege and Battle of Pavia
ca. 1525-30
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Vittore Carpaccio
Pilgrims met by Pope Cyriac before the Walls of Rome
(Life of St Ursula Cycle)
ca. 1492-93
tempera on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Benefial
Portrait of the Quarantotti family
1756
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Bartolomeo di Giovanni
Celebrating the Marriage of Thetis and Peleus
ca. 1475-1500
tempera on panel
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous American Photographer
Women dressed alike and walking away
1959
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Dirck Centen (Teodoro d'Errico)
The Last Supper
ca. 1585
oil on canvas
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Clarence Kerr Chatterton
Gathering in a Park
1914
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Adolph Dehn
Contacting Pablo Picasso
(with caricatures of Alfred Barr and Dorothy Miller of MoMA)
1940
hand-colored lithograph
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Sibylla's Dirge

    We do lie beneath the grass

        In the moonlight, in the shade

    Of the yew-tree.  They that pass

        Hear us not.  We are afraid

            They would envy our delight,

            In our graves by glow-worm light.

Come follow us, and smile as we;

    We sail to the rock in the ancient waves,

Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea,

    And the drowned and the shipwrecked have

                happy graves.

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book (1828)