Rounds

Masaccio
Birth Salver for a Noble Florentine Lady
before 1428
tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lorenzo di Credi
Adoration of the Child
ca. 1505-15
tempera and oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

attributed to Colin Nouailher
Joshua
ca. 1541
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Léonard Limosin
The Judgment of Solomon
1555
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Battista Franco (il Semolei)
Allegorical Composition
before 1561
etching and engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frans Hogenberg
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba
1597
engraving
British Museum

Abel Grimmer
Skaters on the Moat outside St George's Gate, Antwerp
1602
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi)
Phaeton and Apollo
ca. 1634-35
fresco on terracotta
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Andrea di Leone
Head of a Man crowned with Laurel
ca. 1635
oil on panel
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara

Anonymous French Makers
Plate with Glaucus and Scylla
1641
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Sebastiano Mazzoni
Death of Cleopatra
before 1678
oil on canvas
Museo Collezione Gianfranco Luzzetti, Grosseto

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan
1768
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Profile Portrait of a Man
ca. 1796-97
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Indiana
Year of Meteors
1961
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Tadaaki Kuwayama
Untitled #125
1964
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Michael Heizer
Untitled no. 8 (Slate)
1974
polyvinyl latex on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Damien Hirst
Beautiful C Painting
1996
gloss household paint on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

from The Scholar Gypsy

Then fly our greetings, fly our speech and smiles!

        As some grave Tyrian trader, from the sea,

        Descried at sunrise an emerging prow

    Lifting the cool-haired creepers stealthily,

        The fringes of a southward-facing brow

            Among the Aegean isles;

    And saw the merry Grecian coaster come,

        Freighted with amber grapes, and Chian wine,

        Green, bursting figs, and tunnies steeped in brine –

    And knew the intruders on his ancient home,

The young light-hearted masters of the waves –

    And snatched his rudder, and shook out more sail;

        And day and night held on indignantly

    O'er the blue midland waters with the gale,

        Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,

            To where the Atlantic raves

    Outside the western straits; and unbent sails

        There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,

        Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;

    And on the beach undid his corded bales.         

– Matthew Arnold (1853)

Rounds

Matthew Abbott
Tress
1994
acrylic on linen
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Judy Chicago
Georgia O'Keeffe Plate #1
1979
painted earthenware
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sonia Delaunay
Untitled
ca. 1970
lithograph
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Jackson Pollock
Circle
ca. 1938-41
oil on board
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Giacomo Balla
Motivo con la parola Buon Appetito
1915
watercolor and graphite on paper
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Robert Delaunay
Simultaneous Contrasts - Sun and Moon
1913
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Cipriano Cie
Portrait of a Woman
1900
oil on canvas
Palazzo Mansi, Lucca

Le chevalier de Châteaubourg
Miniature Portrait of a Woman
1796
watercolor on ivory
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jan Brueghel the Elder
Fantasy View of Antique Temple and Bridge
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Designer
Medallion to celebrate the Coronation of James I
1603
silver
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

attributed to Francesco Durantino
Plate with Metabus saving Camilla
(scene from Virgil's Aeneid)
1559
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Giuliano Bugiardini
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1523
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Nicola Francioli
Plate with Helmeted Amazon
ca. 1520-30
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Agnolo di Polo
Head of Young Man
(fragment from Adoration of the Magi scene)
ca. 1515-20
painted terracotta
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Andreoli (Giorgio da Gubbio)
Plate with Tree and Arms
1519
maiolica
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Raffaello Botticini
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1495
tempera on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Fra Angelico
The Crucifixion
ca. 1440-50
tempera on panel
Museo Nazionale di San Marco, Florence

from Requiescat

Her life was turning, turning,

        In mazes of heat and sound.

But for peace her soul was yearning,

        And now peace laps her round.

Her cabined, ample spirit

        It fluttered and failed for breath.

To-night it doth inherit

        The vasty halls of death.

– Matthew Arnold (1853)

Pattern Making

Roman Empire
Sarcophagus panel with Cupids
2nd-3rd century AD
marble relief
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Patanazzi Family (Urbino)
Plate
ca. 1580-1610
maiolica
British Museum

Jean Le Pautre
Design for Trophy of Arms with Putti
ca. 1675
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
Design for Decorative Border
ca. 1800
gouache on paper
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

W. Sodoma
Design for Printed Pattern
ca. 1865
gouache on paper
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Walter Crane
Alcestis
1875
color-printed wood-engraving
(ornamental frieze)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Claude Monet
Water Lilies
1904
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre

Jan Voerman the Elder
White Azaleas in Blue Ginger Jars
ca. 1910
watercolor on paper
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Rudolf Junk
Invitation Card to Art Exhibition
1912
color woodblock print and letterpress
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Paul Klee
Hauptweg und Nebenwege
1929
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Charles-Alexandre Mairet
Ex-Libris - Bernard-André Pfeiffer
1944
color woodblock print
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Adolph Gottlieb
Alchemist (Red Portrait)
1945
oil on canvas
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Ad Reinhardt
Brick Painting
1950
oil on canvas
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Larry Rivers
Camels
ca. 1962
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jaap van den Ende
Untitled
1987
oil on canvas
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Agnes van den Brandeler
Plant Motif
1999
oil on canvas
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

Cleopatra                               Go, leave me, soldier,

     For you're no more a lover, leave me dying: 

     Push me all pale and panting from your bosom,

     And when your march begins, let one run after,

     Breathless almost for joy, and cry, 'She's dead.'

     The soldiers shout; you then perhaps may sigh,

     And muster all your Roman gravity.

     Ventidius chides, and straight your brow clears up,

     As I had never been.

Antony                          Gods, 'tis too much,

     Too much for man to bear!

Cleopatra                               What is't for me, then.

     A weak, forsaken woman, and a lover? –

     Here let me breathe my last: envy me not

     This minute in your arms; I'll die apace,

     As fast as e'er I can, and end your trouble.

Antony

     Die? Rather let me perish! Loosened Nature

     Leap from its hinges; sink the props of Heaven,

     And fall the skies to crush the nether world!

     My eyes, my soul, my all! –                           (Embraces her)

Ventidius                                   And what's this toy

     In balance with your fortitude, honour, fame?

– John Dryden, All for Love (1677)