Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Höch - Italy - Ferrari - Guercino

Hannah Höch
Creatures
ca. 1926-29
oil on canvas
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Hannah Höch
Cut with the Kitchen Knife
1919
collage of printed papers
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hannah Höch
Liebe
1931
collage of printed papers
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Hannah Höch
Man and Machine
1921
oil on canvas
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Anonymous Italian Maker
Toilette Mirror
ca. 1750
painted and gilded wood with mirror
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Italian Maker
Vitrine
ca. 1750
painted and gilded poplar and glass
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Italian Maker
Vitrine
18th century
painted and gilded wood and glass
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Italian Maker
Frame
17th century
ebony veneer, ivory, lapis lazuli, flint
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio)
Arria and Paetus
1645
oil on canvas
private collection

Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio)
Farewell of Hector and Andromache
before 1654
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice

Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio)
Incarnation of God the Father
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
(altarpiece)
Basilica di Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Modena

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Two Women with Children
before 1666
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Half-Length Study of Young Woman
before 1666
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1645-50
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
St John the Evangelist meditating the Gospel
ca. 1645-50
drawing
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Gemini

There is a soul in me
It is asking
to be given its body

It is asking 
to be given blue eyes
a skull matted

with black hair
that shape
already formed & detaching

So the past put forth
a house filled with 
asters & white lilac

            *

a child
in her cotton dress
the lawn, the copper beech –

such of my own lives
I have cast off – the sunlight
chipping at the curtains

& the wicker chairs
uncovered, winter after winter,
as the stars finally

thicken & descend as snow

– Louise Glück (1975)