Thursday, August 29, 2024

Depicted Confrontations - II

Anonymous French Artist
Pericles preventing Anaxagoras from drinking poison
ca. 1790
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Frederic Leighton
Dramatic Scene in a Courtyard
ca. 1870
oil on canvas (sketch)
Princeton University Art Museum

workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
Assassination and Funeral of Julius Caesar
ca. 1455-60
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Democritus and Heraclitus
ca. 1730
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Pietro Novelli (il Monrealese)
Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas
ca. 1631-32
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Jean-Joseph Taillasson
Berenice reproaching Ptolemy
1802
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Giuseppe Zini
Pericles encountering Aspasia in the Studio of Phidias
ca. 1899
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Modena

Guido Reni
Plebeian Putti battling Noble Putti
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome

Francesco Incarnatini
Attack of a Robber
1642
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Albert Besnard
L'Avertissement
1900
etching and drypoint
Milwaukee Art Museum

Robert Longo
Study for Wrestlers

1979
drawing
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York

Richard Bosman
Adversaries
1982
woodcut
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York

Max Ernst
The Witch
1941
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1535-40
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Francesco Scaramuzza
Alessandro Farnese at the Battle of Lepanto
1826
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Gioacchino Assereto
The Mocking of Job
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

From the 'Antigone'

Overcome – O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl –
The rich man and his affairs,
The fat flocks and the fields' fatness,
Mariners, rough harvesters;
Overcome Gods upon Parnassus;

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
Heaven and Earth out of their places,
That in the same calamity
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
City and city may contend,
By that great glory driven wild.

Pray I will and sing I must,
And yet I weep – Oedipus' child
Descends into the loveless dust.

– W.B. Yeats (1933)