Sunday, July 11, 2021

Six

Piero di Cosimo
Incarnation of Christ with Six Saints
ca. 1500-1505
tempera on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Fra Bartolomeo
Incarnation of Christ with Six Saints
1515
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Andrea del Sarto
Virgin and Child with Six Saints
ca. 1528
oil on panel
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Giorgio Vasari
Six Tuscan Poets
1544
oil on panel
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tiburzio Passarotti
St George slaying the Dragon, surrounded by Six Saints
ca. 1575-1600
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì

Abraham Bloemaert
Six Women with Headscarves
before 1651
drawing
British Museum

Nicolas Poussin
Holy Family with Six Putti
1651
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena and Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jan de Bisschop
Six Antique Statues
ca. 1668-71
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

William Gouw Ferguson
Six Butterflies and a Moth on a Rose Branch
ca. 1690
oil on panel
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Adriaen Coorte
Six Shells on a Stone Shelf
1696
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

William Hogarth
Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants
ca. 1750-55
oil on canvas
Tate Britain

Johan Zoffany
King George III, Queen Charlotte, and their Six Eldest Children
ca. 1770
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Sèvres Manufactory
Six Draped Huntresses
ca. 1790
porcelain plaque
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Massimo Campigli
Six Women
1945
oil on canvas
Estorick Collection, London

Henry Moore
Six Reclining Figures
1963
lithograph
Art Institute of Chicago

"According to Jacques Lacan the numbers zero to six are a special key to the psyche because the unconscious can't count beyond six."

– James Elkins, from What Painting Is (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 1999)