Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Visualizing the Warrior - III

Peter Paul Rubens
Julius Caesar
1619
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Philip the Fair
ca. 1618
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous French Artist
Ballet Costume as Roman Warrior
18th century
drawing, with watercolor
Courtauld Gallery, London

Frederick van Valckenborch
Alexander the Great with the dying King Darius after the Battle of Issus
1611
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)
David triumphant over Goliath
ca. 1500
bronze plaquette
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Roman Empire
Gladiators
3rd-4th century AD
marble mosaic tiles
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Paolo Farinati
Equestrian Battle
ca. 1570
drawing
National Museum, Athens

Claude-Joseph Vernet
Soldiers in Mountain Gorge with Storm
1789
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Jacques Blanchard
Young Cavalier
1631
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Wilhelm Leibl
Self Portrait as Warrior, after Correggio
1865
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Raphael
Study of Warrior on Horseback
ca. 1511-12
drawing
(unused study for fresco, Stanza di Eliodoro)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Léon Davent after Francesco Primaticcio
Alexander the Great taming Bucephalus
ca. 1540-50
etching
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Pellegrino Tibaldi after Michelangelo
Warrior
ca. 1560
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jacques Courtois
Battle Scene with Turkish Cavalry
ca. 1665
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous Hellenistic Sculptor
Wounded Warrior
100 BC
marble statue
(excavated on Delos)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy
Helmet
5th-4th century BC
bronze
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

 from Baile and Aillinn

They know undying things, for they
Wander where earth withers away,
Though nothing troubles the great streams
But light from the pale stars, and gleams
From the holy orchards, where there is none
But fruit that is of precious stone,
Or apples of the sun and moon.

What were our praise to them? They eat
Quiet's wild heart, like daily meat;
Who when night thickens are afloat
On dappled skins in a glass boat,
Far out under a windless sky;
While over them birds of Aengus fly,
And over the tiller and the prow,
And waving white wings to and fro
Awaken wanderings of light air
To stir their coverlet and their hair.

– W.B. Yeats (1903)