Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Visualizing the Warrior - IV

Leonardo da Vinci
Heads of Warriors
ca. 1504-1505
drawing
(study for lost fresco, The Battle of Anghiari)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Two Warriors in Antique Garb
1529-30
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Roman Empire
Commander in Armour
AD 150 (torso)
with 16th-century arms, legs and head
marble
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Giorgio Vasari
Death of St Peter Martyr
before 1574
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Théodore Géricault
Trumpeter of the Hussars
ca. 1815-20
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

attributed to Giorgione
Portrait of a Warrior
ca. 1505-1510
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jacques Stella
Death of Marc Antony
ca. 1650-55
oil on copper
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Jacques Henri Sablet
Death of Pallas at the hands of Turnus
(episode from The Aeneid)
1778
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
The Great Warrior of Montauban
1898
bronze
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Portrait of a Knight of Malta
ca. 1585
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Livio Agresti (il Ricciutello)
Classical Warrior
ca. 1560
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Eustache Le Sueur
Figure representing Martial Valor
ca. 1652-55
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

workshop of Lucas van Valckenborch
Archduke Matthias of Austria in Classical Armour
ca. 1580
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous French Artist after Valentin de Boulogne
Musicians and Soldiers
1626
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anna Maria Braun
Portrait of a General
ca. 1660-70
colored wax relief
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Roman Empire
Helmet
2nd century AD
bronze
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

from The Shadowy Waters

I walked among the seven woods of Coole, 
Shan-walla, where a willow-bordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,
Where many hundred squirrels are as happy
As though they had been hidden by green boughs
Where old age cannot find them; Pairc-na-lee,
Where hazel and ash and privet blind the paths;
Dim Pairc-na-carraig, where the wild bees fling
Their sudden fragrances on the green air;
Dim Pairc-na-tarav, where enchanted eyes
Have seen immortal, mild, proud shadows walk;
Dim Inchy wood, that hides badger and fox
And marten-cat, and borders that old wood
Wise Biddy Early called the wicked wood:
Seven odours, seven murmurs, seven woods.

– W.B. Yeats (1906)