Friday, February 14, 2020

Human and/or Divine Figures in Paint (1480-1500)

Pietro Perugino
Archangel Raphael with Tobias
ca, 1496-1500
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Pietro Perugino
Archangel Michael
ca. 1496-1500
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Pinturicchio
Virgin and Child
ca. 1480-1500
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Gerard David
Christ nailed to the Cross
ca. 1481
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Filippino Lippi
Virgin and Child with St Jerome and St Dominic
ca. 1485
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Gherardo del Fora
Combat of Love and Chastity
ca. 1480-1500
tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)

Harry loves Myrtle – He has strong arms, from the warehouse,
And on Sunday when they take the bus to emerald meadows he doesn't say:
"What will your chastity amount to when your flesh withers in a little while?"
No,
On Sunday, when they picnic in emerald meadows they look at the Sunday paper:
GIRL SLAYS BANKER-BETRAYER
They spread it around on the grass
BATH-TUB STIRS JERSEY ROW
And then they sit down on it, nice.
Harry doesn't say "Ziggin's Ointment for withered flesh,
Cures thousands of men and women of moles, warts, red veins, flabby throat, scalp and hair diseases,
Not expensive, and fully guaranteed."
No,
Harry says nothing at all,
He smiles,
And they kiss in the emerald meadows on the Sunday paper.

– Kenneth Fearing (1940)

workshop of Juan de Flandes
The Last Supper
ca. 1490-1500
oil on panel
Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London

Andrea Mantegna
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and the Magdalen
ca. 1490-95
tempera on canvas
National Gallery, London

Carlo Crivelli
The Immaculate Conception
1492
tempera on panel
National Gallery, London

Sandro Botticelli
The Virgin adoring the sleeping Christ Child
ca. 1490
tempera on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Albrecht Dürer
St Jerome
ca. 1496
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

attributed to Gian Francesco de Maineri
The Lamentation
ca. 1490-1500
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Master of the Griselda Legend
Alexander the Great
ca. 1494
tempera on panel
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

Master of the Legend of St Lucy
St Jerome in a Landscape
ca. 1490
oil on panel
National Trust, Upton House, Warwickshire

Raffaellino del Garbo
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist and Two Angels
ca. 1493-94
tempera on panel
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow