Ham

Bernardo Zenale
St Peter
ca. 1510-12
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Marco Dente
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Bishop-Saint and St Joseph
before 1527
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
The Nativity
before 1534
drawing
(formerly owned by the painter Peter Lely)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cornelis van Haarlem
Massacre of the Innocents
1591
oil on canvas
(central panel of triptych with wings by Maarten van Heemskerck)
Mauritshuis, The Hague on long-term loan to Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Lucas Cranach the Younger
Portrait of a Man
1546
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Julius Caesar restoring Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt
ca. 1637
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo)
Portrait of abbot Giovanni da Parma
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Simon Fokke
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Johann Franz Buddeus
conducting a Philosophical Discussion
1739
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Gaspare Diziani
Group of Orientals
before 1767
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

François-Hubert Drouais
Portrait of Louis XV [near death]
1773
oil on canvas
Château de Versailles

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Portrait of Louise Harduin at age 15
1831
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Josef Danhauser
Half-Length Study of a Woman
1839
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

David Cox
Landscape with Shepherd
before 1859
oil on paper (sketch)
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Wilhelm Füssli after Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1863-65
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Gustave Courbet
Le Ruisseau du Puits Noir
ca. 1865
oil on canvas
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Meyer Isaac de Haan
Still Life with Ham
ca. 1889
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Tom Young
Christ
2003
gelatin silver print
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

from Frenzy

Then was I cast from out my state;

    Two fiends of darkness led my way;

They waked me early, watched me late,

    My dread by night, my plague by day!

Oh! I was made their sport, their play,

    Through many a stormy troubled year;

And how they used their passive prey

    Is sad to tell: – but you shall hear.

                            *                                                        

Those fiends upon a shaking fen

    Fixed me, in dark tempestuous night;

There never trod the foot of men,

    There flocked the fowl in wintry flight;

There danced the moor's deceitful light

    Above the pool where sedges grow;

And when the morning-sun shone bright,

    It shone upon a field of snow.

They hung me on a bough so small,

    The rook could build her nest no higher;

They fixed me on the trembling ball

    That crowns the steeple's quivering spire;

They set me where the seas retire

    But drown with their returning tide;

And made me flee the mountain's fire,

    When rolling from its burning side. 

                            *

I've furled in storms the flapping sail,

    By hanging from the topmast-head;

I've served the vilest slaves in jail,

    And picked the dunghill's spoil for bread;

I've made the badger's hole my bed,

    I've wandered with a gipsy crew;

I've dreaded all the guilty dread,

    And done what they would fear to do.

– George Crabbe (1810)

Threes

Jean Changenet
Three Prophets
ca. 1485-95
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Musée du Louvre

Bartolomeo Neroni (il Riccio)
Three Visions of St Catherine of Siena
ca. 1567
drawing (fresco studies)
British Museum

Mauro Antonio Tesi after Stefano della Bella
Designs for Vases
ca. 1750
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Printmaker
Tomb Painting of Ramesses III adoring Isis and Ptah
ca. 1829-32
hand-colored etching and engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

James Pradier
The Three Graces
1831
marble statue group
Musée du Louvre

Beauvais Manufactory
Folding Screen with Birds
1836
tapestry panels (wool and silk) on wood frame
Musée du Louvre

Julia Margaret Cameron
Daughters of Jerusalem
1865
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Émile Gsell
Femmes du Prince Phra Kéo Pha
1866
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alfred Stieglitz
Luncheon at Lake George
1920
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Marie Laurencin
Reading in a Park
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Charles Pulsford
Three Angels
1949
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Alan Davie
Red Dwarf
1962
oil on canvas (triptych)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

William Gedney
Kentucky
ca. 1966
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Graciela Iturbide
Duelo, Chiapas
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bill Burke
Untitled
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

T.L. Solien
The Three Sailors
1982
lithograph and screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mark Greenwold
Why Not Say What Happened?
2003-2004
oil on panel
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Epitaph on a Betrothed Girl

I am Baukis the bride's.

When you pass this bitter pillar

say to death

under the ground,

'You are envious, oh death';

for they who see

this monument

will know

that the father-in-law

burned the girl

on the pyre 

with the unused torches

of the marriage train.

Oh Hymen

    you have changed the singable bride song

to a dirge. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Lenore Mayhew

Resonant

Lorenzo Lippi
Allegory of Innocence
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jan Swart van Groningen
Allegorical Figure of Ira (Wrath)
before 1553
drawing
British Museum

Heinrich Aldegrever
Allegorical Figure of Ira (Wrath)
1552
engraving
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous French Artist after an engraving by Jan Sadeler
Allegory of Water
ca. 1600-1650
glazed terracotta relief plaque
Musée du Louvre

Jan Brueghel the Elder
Allegory of Air
1621
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Corrado Giaquinto
Allegory of Winter
ca. 1740-50
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Artist
Daedalus as Allegory of Sculpture
(his famous Labyrinth is depicted in the background)
ca. 1500
marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Lucas van Leyden
Allegorical Figure of Justice (Iusticia)
1530
engraving
British Museum

Alessandro Algardi
Allegorical Figures of Immortality
1644
drawing (funerary design)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jacques Sarazin
Allegorical Figures of Virtue and Victory
 before 1660
drawing (sketches for sculpture)
British Museum

Andrea Pozzo
Allegorical Figures creating a portrait
of Vittorio Amadeo II, Duke of Savoy
ca. 1688
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Monogrammist I.K. (German printmaker)
Allegorical Scene with Knight threatening Justice
ca. 1535-50
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

John Bellany
Allegory
1964
 oil on panels (triptych)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jean Jouy
Allegory of the Insurrection of 10 August 1792
(episode in the French Revolution)
ca. 1793
agate cameo
Musée du Louvre

Abraham Janssens
Allegory of Joy and Melancholy
1628
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
Allegory of Love and Charity
ca. 1508
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Thomas Stothard
Allegory of Justice
ca. 1780
drawing
British Museum

On the Eretrians taken prisoners by the Persians (490 BC)

Leaving behind for ever the thundering Aegean,

Finding in Ecbatana these midland graves,

We take our farewell of all things Eretrian –

Of Athens, Euboea, and the encircling waves. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Clive Sansom