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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Title Page - Christ in the Winepress 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Last Supper 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Agony in the Garden 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Taking of Christ 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Christ before Caiaphas 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Christ before Pilate 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Flagellation 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Crowning with Thorns 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Ecce Homo 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Way to Calvary 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series Descent from the Cross 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Entombment 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II after Karel van Mander Passion Series The Resurrection 1596-98 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II The Four Temperaments Sanguine - Element of Air 1596-97 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II The Four Temperaments Choleric - Element of Fire 1596-97 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II The Four Temperaments Melancholic - Element of Earth 1596-97 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II The Four Temperaments Phlegmatic - Element of Water 1596-97 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Herr Stimmung on Transparency
To those of a certain temperament, there is nothing worse than the
thought of something hidden, secret, withheld from their knowing –
especially if they suspect that another knows about it and has even,
perhaps, connived at keeping it concealed.
D.H. Lawrence seems to have been irritated no end by the thought
that people were having sex and not telling him.
Freud too.
– Ah but then Freud arranged it so that everyone had to tell.
His psychoanalysis lights up the depths, makes our tangled web
transparent, to the point where I can see all the way down to It.
And the process moves outward in increasing rings:
The Master analyses his disciples. Who thereby – transparent
now – become masters and, in turn, take on others, patients or
disciples, to analyse.
So that eventually there are no secrets.
Except, of course, those of the first Master, the Self-Analysed.
Which is to say, the only private One, sole Unrevealed. Opaque
center of His universal panopticon.
While we see only His words, His daughter, His cigar.
Poor Lawrence.
– Keith Waldrop, from The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2002)