Thursday, September 19, 2024

Ancient Divas - IV

Luca Giordano after Bartholomeus Spranger
Omphale with Lion Skin and Club
and Hercules with Spindle

ca. 1660
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giovanni Battista Pittoni
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1730-35
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Guido Reni
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1626
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Giovanni Giacomo Sementi
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1625-26
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Claude Vignon
Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Hendrik Goltzius
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1586-90
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Fede Galizia
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1600
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Cristofano Allori
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1610-12
oil on canvas
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Max Liebermann
Samson and Delilah
1902
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Simon Vouet
Lucretia
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

Artemisia Gentileschi
Lucretia
ca. 1627
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Guido Reni
Lucretia
ca. 1638-42
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Jakob Philipp Hackert
Dido and Aeneas sheltering in the Cave
1804
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Palma il Giovane
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1599
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Joseph Heintz the Elder
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1600-1605
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Bernardo Strozzi
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

from A Bronze Head

Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave,
And wondered what was left for massacre to save. 

– W.B. Yeats (1939)