Severin Roesen Fruit ca. 1862-72 oil on panel Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Severin Roesen Flowers ca. 1862-72 oil on panel Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Anonymous Italian Artist after Giambologna Hercules and Lichas ca. 1600-1625 bronze statuette Art Institute of Chicago |
Anonymous Italian Artist after Giambologna Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1600-1625 bronze statuette Art Institute of Chicago |
Gherardo Starnina Isaiah flanked by Angels ca. 1410 tempera on panel (predella fragment) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Gherardo Starnina Jeremiah flanked by Angels ca. 1410 tempera on panel (predella fragment) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Louis-Léopold Boilly Portrait of Monsieur d'Aucourt de Saint-Just ca. 1800-1801 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Louis-Léopold Boilly Portrait of Madame d'Aucourt de Saint-Just ca. 1800-1801 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Jean-Louis Journet Belisarius reduced to Beggary 1782 marble relief Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Jean-Louis Journet Diogenes seeking an Honest Man 1782 marble relief Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Joseph Highmore Portrait of Mrs Freeman Flower 1747 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Joseph Highmore Portrait of Freeman Flower 1747 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Bonifazio Veronese Justice and Temperance ca. 1532 oil on canvas Gallerie Estense, Modena |
Bonifazio Veronese Prudence and Fortitude ca. 1532 oil on canvas Gallerie Estense, Modena |
Georges Valmier Abstraction 1923 gouache on paper Yale University Art Gallery |
Georges Valmier Composition 1923 gouache on paper Yale University Art Gallery |
Oil and Blood
In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
– W.B. Yeats (1933)