Vehement

Leonard Freed
Untitled (Paris)
1984
gelatin silver print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder
Death with Victim
ca. 1567
drawing (print study)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Ernst Deutsch (called Dryden)
Der Trainer
1914
lithograph
(film poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Franz von Defregger
The Jealous Tyrolean
1899
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
1852
drawing
(print study for Bible illustration)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Gerolamo Ferroni after Carlo Maratti
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1700-1710
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Bertoldo di Giovanni
Battle of Centaur and Lapith
ca. 1470
marble relief
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Victor Müller
Siegfried slaying the Dragon
before 1871
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Hans Schäufelein
Youth struggling with Death
1517
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Angelic Vision of a Saint
before 1781
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Domenico Cresti (il Passignano)
Dream of St Francis with Apparition of Christ
before 1638
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens
Judith beheading Holofernes
ca. 1609-10
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Henry VIII embracing Anne Boleyn
ca. 1779
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Apollo and Coronis
before 1667
oil on copper
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Theo Doro
Syphilis is a Social Scourge
(its victims are innumerable)
ca. 1930
lithograph (poster)
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Marcial Grenon
Untitled
1985
acrylic on canvas
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

from The Man on the Dump

Now, in the time of spring (azaleas, trilliums,

Myrtle, viburnums, daffodils, blue phlox), 

Between that disgust and this, between the things

That are on the dump (azaleas and so on)

And those that will be (azaleas and so on), 

One feels the purifying change. One rejects

The trash.

                 That's the moment when the moon creeps up,

to the bubbling of bassoons. That's the time,

One looks at the elephant-colorings of tires,

Everything is shed; and the moon comes up as the moon

(All its images are in the dump) and you see

As a man (not like an image of a man),

You see the moon rise in the empty sky.

– Wallace Stevens (1942)