Supernaturalisms

Frederik van Valckenborch
Christ walking on Water
ca. 1590-1600
oil on canvas
Muzeum Kolekcji im Jana Pawła II, Warsaw

Konrad Witz
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
1444
tempera on panel
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

Anonymous French Artist
Arrival of the Holy House by Miracle at Loreto
ca. 1540-60
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Livio Agresti
Christ healing the Blind
ca. 1573-74
fresco
Chiesa di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome

Livio Agresti
Christ healing the Lame
ca. 1573-74
fresco
Chiesa di Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome

Giorgio Vasari
Miracle of the Prophet Elisha
ca. 1566
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Parrasio Micheli
The Gathering of Manna
ca. 1560
fresco (with donor portraits at left)
Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna, Venice

Pieter de Grebber
Moses striking the Rock
1630
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing

Sebastiano Conca
Miracle of St Turibius of Mogrovego, Archbishop of Lima, Peru
1726
oil on canvas (canonization painting)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Filippo da Verona
St Anthony appearing to the Blessed Luca Belludi
ca. 1510-11
fresco
Sala Capitolare, Scuola del Santo, Padua

Francesco Vecellio
Miracle of the Host
ca. 1510-11
fresco
Sala Capitolare, Scuola del Santo, Padua

Francesco Vecellio
Miracle of the Miser's Heart
ca. 1510-11
fresco
Sala Capitolare, Scuola del Santo, Padua

Giovanni Lanfranco
Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
ca. 1624-25
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Pandolfo Reschi
Miracle of St John the Baptist in a Landscape
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

attributed to Gaspare Venturini
Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1590-1600
oil on panel
private collection

Arnout Vinckenborch
Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1617
oil on panel
Sint Pauluskerk, Antwerp

Kristian Zahrtmann
Transfigured Christ appearing before the Disciples
1895
oil on canvas
private collection

Thalassa

Run out the boat, my broken comrades;

Let the old seaweed crack, the surge

Burgeon oblivious of the last

Embarkation of feckless men,

Let every adverse force converge  –

Here we must needs embark again.

Run up the sail, my heartsick comrades;

Let each horizon tilt and lurch –

You know the worst: your wills are fickle,

Your values blurred, your hearts impure

And your past life a ruined church –

But let your poison be your cure.

Put out to sea, ignoble comrades,

Whose record shall be noble yet;

Butting through scarps of moving marble

The narwhal dares us to be free;

By a high star our course is set,

Our end is Life. Put out to sea.

– Louis MacNeice (ca. 1963 or earlier)