Prospect

Venturino Mercati
Holy Trinity in Blessing
ca. 1470-80
pigment and gold on vellum
(fragment of historiated initial from choir book)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Alessandro Maganza
Studies for Allegorical Figure of Faith
before 1630
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Agnes Lunn
East Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens
1896
oil on cardboard
David Collection, Copenhagen

Francesco Maltese
Still Life with Carpet
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

Jan Massys
The Tax Collector's Office
1539
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Rune Mields
Composition
1970
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Giovanni Andrea Maglioli
Triton sounding Conch
ca. 1600-1610
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Nicolaes Maes
Portrait of a Lady
1676
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Alessandro Magnasco
The Village Barber
before 1749
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Jean Metzinger
Equestrienne
1924
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Annelene Merton
Nocturnal Figures
1983
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Antonio Masolotti
Paysages: Penney-Dessus
1990
C-print
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

George Luks
Pedro
ca. 1920-25
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

August Macke
Promenade in Brown and Green
ca. 1913
oil on cardboard
Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany

Maria Sibylla Merian
Oak Branch with Owlet Moth
ca. 1679
watercolor and gouache on vellum
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Henri Meunier
Casino de Blankenberge
1896
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The Brave Man

The sun, that brave man,

Comes through boughs that lie in wait,

That brave man.

Green and gloomy eyes

In dark forms of the grass

Run away.

The good stars,

Pale helms and spiky spurs,

Run away.

Fears of my bed,

Fears of life and fears of death,

Run away.

That brave man comes up

From below and walks without meditation,

That brave man. 

– Wallace Stevens (1935)