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| Anonymous Dutch painter Judgment of Paris 1532 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Fra Bartolomeo Drapery Study for Standing Male Figure ca. 1512-17 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Antonio da Vendri Judgment of Paris ca. 1500-1525 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from Time of Judgement
At eight in the evening, properly humble, I went
with movement harmonious and restrained,
poured into the prototype of fear,
with a landscape of devotion on my eyelids,
all as was shown me with much circumspection
by the last mirror:
the kissing of birds on the belt-buckle,
whatever of the chest might be revealed
and arranged with disbelief,
a slight fragrance of narcissus
on my earlobes; I went
at eight in the evening
with a small sheaf of papers watered in sin
to the dreadful encounter with judgement
– Andonis Decavalles, translated from Greek by Kimon Friar (1956)
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| Perino del Vaga Studies of Figures and Architecture ca. 1542-45 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Michelangelo Medici Madonna 1521-34 marble Medici Chapel, New Sacristy, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence |
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| Marcantonio Two Satyrs carrying a Child in a Basket before 1524 engraving National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen Portrait of Erard de la Marck ca. 1528-30 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| follower of Raphael A Papal Audience ca. 1510-20 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
from Paradise Lost, Book 2
High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her Kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence; and from despair
Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires
Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue
Vain war with Heav'n, and by success untaught
His proud imaginations thus displayed.
– John Milton (1674)
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| Baldassare Peruzzi The Tree of Jesse ca. 1530 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder St Christopher 1506 chiaroscuro woodcut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hans Baldung Lamentation ca. 1515-17 woodcut Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Hans Burgkmair St George on Horseback ca. 1508-18 chiaroscuro woodcut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Salviati after Marco Dente Giardino di Pensieri (book frontispiece to Le Sorti di Francesco Marcolini) 1540 woodcut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Young Thinker
In the path of spring – young, slender –
the delicate beech-tree, silver-limbed
and crossed with gold – last year's curled leaves
aslant in the wind of its adversities,
So he – delicate-bodied, eager, sweet of mouth,
so sturdily he stands, and spring
and youth are in his sinews.
What griefs have crossed
their slanting memories upon his brain
he will not say – what griefs have made
his intricate firm purpose, set
the stubborn dialectic of his mind.
– Myra Marini (1933)
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1513-27 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
– poems from the archives of Poetry (Chicago)