Vaulted

Hans Thoma
Marine Miracle
1881
oil on canvas
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Sketch of Vaulted Interior
before 1766
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of Countess Vassilievna Skavronskaya
1796
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lambert Doomer
Boppard on the Rhine
1663
drawing
British Museum

Sanzo Wada
South Wind
1907
oil on canvas
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Altar Design
before 1766
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of Madame du Barry
1781
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lambert Doomer
Cleves viewed from the South
1663
drawing
British Museum

Giorgio Vasari
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
ca. 1551
oil on canvas
(installed in Vasari's family chapel)
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Arezzo

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Design for Sepulchral Monument
before 1766
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of painter Joseph Vernet
1778
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lambert Doomer
Figures under Trellis
ca. 1663
drawing
British Museum

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Return from Fishing
1904
oil on canvas
Museo Frugone, Genoa

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Design for Sepulchral Monument
before 1766
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of Madame Molé-Reymond
de la Comédie-italienne
1786
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lambert Doomer
Ferry Boat
ca. 1663
drawing
British Museum

Paul Thek
Untitled (Raft Stars Moon)
ca. 1984
acrylic on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

from The Rape of the Lock

      Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung;

Deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.

Even he, whose soul now melts in mournful lays,

Shall shortly want the generous tears he pays;

Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part,

And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart;

Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er,

The Muse forgot, and thou beloved no more

– Alexander Pope (1714)