Henry Raeburn Portrait of the artist's nephew Patrick Moir ca. 1785 oil on canvas (made in Rome) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Jacob van Loo Youth Reading ca. 1650 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
Gabriël Metsu Woman Reading a Book ca. 1653-54 oil on canvas Leiden Collection, New York |
Jan Lievens Old Woman Reading ca. 1625-26 oil on panel Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
Jean-Augustin Franquelin Reading to the Convalescent ca. 1827 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Albert Edelfelt Annie Edelfelt with Fredrika Snygg 1888 oil on panel Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
Magnus Enckell Reading Room 1899 oil on canvas Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
Sven Henriksen Social-Demokraten ca. 1930-34 lithograph (poster) High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Karl Klimsch Engelhorn's Allgemeine Roman-Bibliothek ca. 1885-95 lithograph (poster) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Sebastiano Conca Sibyl of Lemnos ca. 1725 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
Sebastiano Conca Phrygian Sibyl ca. 1725 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
Bartolomeo Passarotti after Michelangelo Persian Sibyl (figure from the Sistine Ceiling) ca. 1550 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Orazio Borgianni Cardinal pondering the Words of Isaiah ca. 1605-1608 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Pietro Faccini Saint with Book ca. 1595 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
workshop of Antonio Carneo St Jerome ca. 1670 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
Franz Sturtzkopf The Hermit ca. 1876 oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
The Balloon of the Mind
Hands, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
– W.B. Yeats (1919)