Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Ancient Divas - III

Abraham Janssens
Hercules ejecting Faunus from the Bed of Omphale
1607
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous Genoese Artist
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Filippo Lauri
Circe and Ulysses
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Jean-Léon Gérôme
Leda
ca. 1895
drawing
(study for painting)
Morgan Library, New York

Leonardo Grazia (Leonardo da Pistoia)
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1540
oil on slate
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Giorgio Vasari
Judith and Holofernes
ca. 1554
oil on panel
Saint Louis Art Museum

Abraham Bloemaert
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
1593
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jacopo Bertucci (Jacopone da Faenza)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
Gallerie Estense, Modena

Lorenzo de Caro
Esther before Ahasuerus
ca. 1758
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Pompeo Batoni
Samson and Delilah
1766
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Nicolas Régnier
Artemisia with the Ashes of Mausolus
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Hans Baldung
Lucretia
1520
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo Anselmi
Lucretia
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Salvator Rosa
Jael slaying Sisera
ca. 1650
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

workshop of Gérard de Lairesse
Death of Dido
ca. 1700
watercolor on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Bernardino Luini
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1525-30
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

from Long-legged Fly

That civilisation may not sink
Its great battle lost,
Quiet the dog, tether the pony
To a distant post.
Our master Caesar is in the tent
Where the maps are spread,
His eyes fixed upon nothing,
A hand under his head.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.

– W.B. Yeats (1939)