Fervent

Alberto Greco
Todo de Todo
1964
ink, oil paint and printed paper collage on panel
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern

Jan Steen
The Wrath of Ahasuerus
ca. 1668-70
oil on canvas
Museum Bredius, The Hague

Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Alceste
ca. 1810
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giorgio Ghisi
David beheading Goliath
1540
engraving
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Peter Schlemihl's Encounter with the Shadow
1915
color woodblock print
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Boatman and Siren
1853
drawing
Manchester Art Gallery

Gustaf Wappers
The Siege of Leiden
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden

Pierre Alechinsky
Victors and Vanquished
1962
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Wolfgang Heimbach
Christ succoured by Saints and Angels
1658
oil on panel
Landesmuseum Mainz

Giacomo Parolini
Moses commanding the Red Sea
to close over the Egyptian Host
ca. 1695
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Lorenzo Lotto
Penitent St Jerome
ca. 1513-14
oil on panel
Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania

workshop of Jacob Jordaens after Peter Paul Rubens
Death of Decius Mus
ca. 1616-17
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Aeneas in the Underworld
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hans Ulrich Franck
Neptune
ca. 1670-80
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Agostino Carracci
Venus whipping Anteros
ca. 1590-95
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Anonymous Artist
Rich Man with Statue of Hope
approached by Death
ca. 1580
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

from Connoisseur of Chaos

After all the pretty contrast of life and death

Proves that these opposite things partake of one,

At least that was the theory, when bishops' books

Resolved the world. We cannot go back to that.

The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,

If one may say so. And yet relation appears,

A small relation expanding like the shade

Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill. 

– Wallace Stevens (1942)