Supporting Characters

Bernardino Campi
Mary Magdalen
ca. 1560
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1620
oil on panel
San Diego Museum of Art

Mary Beale
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1672
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Frederick Sandys
Mary Magdalen
ca. 1859
oil on panel
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Giovanni Brilli after Andrea del Sarto
The Magdalen with Alabaster Box of Ointment
before 1899
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Christ before Pilate
ca. 1500-1505
engraving
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fernando Gallego
Pilate washing his Hands
ca. 1480-90
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson

Charles-Joseph Natoire
The Calling of Peter
ca. 1740
oil on canvas (sketch for altarpiece)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri
St Peter delivered from Prison
before 1656
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Karel Dujardin
Denial of Peter
ca. 1663
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Remorse of St Peter
1739
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Willem van Herp
Christ's Charge to Peter
before 1677
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Anonymous Italian Imitator of Caravaggio
Martyrdom of St Peter
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Monogrammist A.H.
Incredulity of St Thomas
ca. 1505-1510
oil on canvas (altarpiece fragment)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Giulio dell'Angolo del Moro
Doubting Thomas
ca. 1600
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Paolo Finoglia
Doubting Thomas
before 1645
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Johann Ulrich Loth
Doubting Thomas
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

England Now

I like to be dead.

That's what the dead say.

I'd rather be dead than so-called alive.

I like the lack of feeling.

But you know what?

That's the way I've always felt.

That's my way. 

I'm feeling good.

I haven't been big on feeling.

I haven't been alive that much.

It rains all the time and it's cold in July.

Somewhere down south,

In the tropical humidity and heat

Of my brain below the belt,

Is where I vote.

I don't want any. 

I eat what's there.

I don't import.

I am England

Under these newish circumstances.

A people who are proud to be dead said

So loud and clear.

– Frederick Seidel (2018)