Saturday, January 14, 2023

The Painted Rückenfigur ("back-figure") - I

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Titian
The Resurrection (detail)
ca. 1542-44
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Jacopo Tintoretto
Miracle of the Slave (detail)
1548
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Francesco Salviati
Creation of the Sun and Moon
ca. 1554
fresco
Chigi Chapel, Basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

Paolo Veronese
Triumph of Virtue over Vice
1554-56
oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice

Luca Cambiaso
Venus and Cupid
ca. 1560-65
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Cristoforo Roncalli and workshop
Trompe-l'oeil Atlante
ca. 1590-1600
fresco
Sala del Tempesta, Appartamento della Principessa Isabelle,
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Jacob Jordaens
Allegory of Fertility
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Classical Landscape with Nymphs
1647
oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Michiel Sweerts
Wrestling Match
1649
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Gerard Ter Borch
Paternal Admonition
1654
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pieter de Hooch
Lady addressing her Maid in a Courtyard
ca. 1660-61
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Eglon van der Neer
Wife of Candaules discovering the hiding Gyges
ca. 1660-62
oil on canvas
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Jan Verkolje
The Messenger
1674
oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Antonio Calza
Battle Scene
ca. 1685
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona
 
from I Have a Time Machine

But unfortunately it can only travel into the future
at a rate of one second per second,

which seems slow to the physicists and to the grant
committees and even to me.

But I manage to get there, time after time, to the next
moment and to the next.

Thing is, I can't turn it off. I keep zipping ahead –
well not zipping – And if I try

to get out of this time machine, open the latch,
I'll fall into space, unconscious,

then dessicated! And I'm pretty sure I'm afraid of that.
So I stay inside.

There's a window, though. It shows the past.
It's like a television or fish tank.

But it's never live; it's always over. 

– Brenda Shaughnessy (2016)