Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Arresting Compositions - II

Siobhán Hapaska
Untitled (Maria Callas and U.S. Fighter Planes)
1997
screenprint
Tate Gallery

Samuel Hieronymous Grimm
The French Lady in London
ca. 1771
drawing
Yale Center for British Art

Benjamin Robert Haydon
Study of Right Hand
ca. 1820
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Wenceslaus Hollar
Two Eyes and Two Heads
ca. 1645
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Barbara Hepworth
Two-Piece Marble (Rangatira)
1968-69
marble
Milwaukee Art Museum

John Houston
Birds, Flowers and Dark Sun
ca. 1962
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Foot Studies for Christ giving the Keys to St Peter
ca. 1817
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Florentine Workshop
Column
(for display of sculpture)
ca. 1450-75
verde antico and white marble
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Milanese Illuminator
Three-Headed Figure of God
ca. 1450
tempera on vellum
(cutting from choir book)
Morgan Library, New York

Theodor Kittelsen
Figure Study
ca. 1876-79
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Pompeo Leoni
King Philip II of Spain
head cast in silver and painted, ca. 1580
terracotta bust added, 1753
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alessandro Magnasco
The Choristers
ca. 1740-45
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Master of Saint Giles
Baptism of Clovis
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Master of the Saint Lucy Legend
Mary, Queen of Heaven
ca. 1485-1500
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Two Boys with White Spots over Heads
ca. 1962
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Hans Memling
Chalice of St John the Evangelist
ca. 1470-75
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

During the Middle Ages there was a traditional, non-canonical tale in circulation representing St John the Evangelist at a banquet in Ephesus where he was offered a goblet of poisoned wine.  Before drinking, he blessed the wine in the name of Christ – and at his words the poison emerged from the drink in the form of a green snake.