Showing posts with label etchings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etchings. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Architectural Fragments

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Capriccio of Ruins on a Coast
ca. 1610-20
oil on copper
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

workshop of Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Italian Landscape with Ruins of the Aurelian Wall
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Paul Bril
Religious Procession among Ruins, Rome
ca. 1600-1610
oil on copper
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Claude Lorrain
Roman Ruins on the Aventine Hill
before 1682
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Caspar David Friedrich
Ruins of the Temple of Juno at Agrigento
ca. 1828
oil on canvas
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

Giovanni Ghisolfi
Capriccio with Ruins
ca. 1650
drawing
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Svein Johansen
Roman Ruins
ca. 1983
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Jules Laurens
Ruins of a Roman Roadhead in Bithynia
ca. 1875
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille

Jean Lemaire
Artists studying Ruins
ca. 1630
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Giovanni Battista Mercati
Domes of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore rising behind Roman Ruins
1629
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Gian Paolo Panini
Capriccio of Roman Ruins with the Pantheon
ca. 1740
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Marco Ricci
Capriccio of Antique Ruins
ca. 1720-25
tempera on vellum
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Marco Ricci
Capriccio of Antique Ruins
ca. 1720-30
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Modena

Hubert Robert
Artist among Ruins on the Palatine Hill, Rome
ca. 1760-65
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Louise Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont
Ruins of Roman Theater at Taormina
1825
oil on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Jan Baptist Weenix
Study of Ruins
ca. 1646
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

He recounts that he saw other similar things, and he tells marvelous stories of having seen men and other things that no one else says he has seen or heard, and that no one else has even imagined.  The most wondrous thing of all is that in traveling north they came close to the moon, which was like a completely stripped land, and that while there they saw things that it was natural for a man to see who had invented such an exaggerated fiction.

Then the Sibyl picked up her art of divination again, with Carmanes.  After this, each person made his own prayer, and everything turned out for each of the others in accordance with his prayer, but in his case, after he woke up, he was found in Tyre in the temple of Hercules, and after he got up, he found Dercyllis and Mantinias.  They were safe and had released their parents from the long sleep or, rather, death, and were prospering in other ways as well.

These things Dinias told to Cymbas and provided cyprus tablets on which he asked Cymbas's companion Erasinides, since he was a skillful writer, to record the account.  He also showed Dercyllis to them – it was in fact she who brought the cypress tablets.  He ordered Cymbas to have the accounts written down on two sets of cypress tablets, one of which Cymbas would keep and the other of which Dercyllis was to place in a small box and set down near Dinias's grave at the time of his death.

– Antonius Diogenes, from The Wonders Beyond Thule, written in Greek, 1st-2nd century AD.  A detailed summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.  The original text by Antonius Diogenes was subsequently lost; only the summary by Photius has survived.  This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

William Kentridge

William Kentridge
Industry and Idleness: Responsible Hedonism
1986-87
etching
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC


William Kentridge
Industry and Idleness: Promises of Fortune
1986-87
etching
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Johannesburg: 2nd Greatest City after Paris
1989
 drawing (film-still)
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Johannesburg: 2nd Greatest City after Paris
1989
drawing (film-still)
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old:
Soho and Mrs Eckstein in Blue Pool

1991
drawing (film-still)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

William Kentridge
Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old:
Her Absence Filled the World

1991
drawing (film-still)
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Ubu Tells the Truth
1996-97
etching, aquatint and drypoint
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Ubu Tells the Truth
1996-97
etching, aquatint and drypoint
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Ubu Tells the Truth
1996-97
etching, aquatint and drypoint
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Ubu Tells the Truth
1996-97
etching, aquatint and drypoint
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Blue Head
ca. 1998
etching, aquatint and drypoint
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Stereoscope
1999
drawing (film-still)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Stereoscope
1999
drawing (film-still)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Stereoscope
1999
drawing (film-still)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Stereoscope
1999
drawing (film-still)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Hylosinines
2000
drawing on printed dictionary page
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

William Kentridge
Puppet Drawing
2000
collage over printed map
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
Puppet Drawing
2000
collage over printed map
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
2003
offset print
(exhibition poster)
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC

from Metamorphoses

[Story of Baucis and Philemon, concluded]

    They haste, and what their tardy Feet deny'd,
The trusty Staff (their better Leg) supply'd.
An Arrows Flight they wanted to the Top,
And there secure, but spent with Travel, stop;
Then turn their now no more forbidden Eyes;
Lost in a Lake the floated Level lies:
A Watry Desart covers all the Plains,
Their Cot alone, as in an Isle, remains:
Wondring with weeping Eyes, while they deplore
Their Neighbours Fate, and  Country now no more,
Their little Shed, scarce large enough for Two,
Seems, from the Ground increas'd, in Height and Bulk to grow.
A stately Temple shoots within the Skies,
The Crotches of their Cot in Columns rise:
The Pavement polish'd Marble they behold,
The Gates with Sculpture grac'd, the Spires and Tiles of Gold.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by John Dryden (1700)

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Protagonists

Antonio Spano after Marco Pino
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
ca. 1570-80
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum


Natalia Goncharova
Design for Stage Set
ca. 1912
pochoir
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Raoul Dufy
Les Trois Nus
before 1953
pochoir
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall

Jan van Somer after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of painter Hubert Le Sueur
ca. 1670-80
mezzotint
British Museum

Jan van Somer
Woman with Veil
ca. 1670-80
mezzotint
British Museum

William Strang
Woman darning
1884
etching and mezzotint
British Museum

Georges Barbier
La Terre
1925
lineblock and pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Georges Barbier
L'Automne
1925
lineblock and pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Georges Barbier
L'Eau
1925
lineblock and pochoir
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Elisha Kirkall after Enea Salmeggia
Christ with Martha and Mary
ca. 1720-30
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Master N.D. after Parmigianino
Virgin and Child with Saints
ca. 1544
chiaroscuro woodcut
(School of Fontainebleau)
British Museum

Hans Burgkmair the Elder
Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I
1518
chiaroscuro woodcut
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Hans Wechtlin
Alcon slaying the Serpent
before 1526
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Hans Wechtlin
Orpheus
ca. 1510
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Hans Wechtlin
Pyrgoteles (ancient gem-cutter)
ca. 1520
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Hans Wechtlin
The Knight and the Lansquenet
ca. 1518
chiaroscuro woodcut
British Museum

Johann Ulrich Biberger
Herzog Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig
ca. 1710
mezzotint
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

ELISION – The obliteration of a syllable, for metrical reasons, when a vowel at the end of a word comes before one at the beginning of another.  This strict classical meaning of the term is extended ordinarily, in the English use of it, to the omission of a syllable within a word, or the fusion of two in any of the various ways indicated by the classical terms crasis ("mixture"), thlipsis ("crushing"), syncope ("cutting short"), synalœpha ("smearing together"), synizesis ("setting together"), synecphonesis ("combined utterances"), and others.  Perhaps the most useful phraseology in English indicates "elision" for actual vanishing of a vowel (when it is usually represented by an apostrophe), and "slur" for running of two into one.  These two processes are of extreme importance, for upon the view taken of them turns the view to be held of Shakespeare's and Milton's blank verse, and of a large number of other measures.

– George Saintsbury, from Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910)