Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Pieces

Ancient Egypt
Treasurer of the Temple of Amun
1100 BC
granite (statue fragment)
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

The ears of the Treasurer show the Egyptians granting more weight to what they knew about the model than to what they could actually see of him from the front. 

Christoph Ludwig Agricola
Hollyhock
before 1719
tempera on paper
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

James Montgomery Flagg
"Couldn't we pretend to be old acquaintances?"
ca. 1909
drawing
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Anonymous French Artist
Coiffure simple à la mode
ca. 1780
drawing (print study)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Sofonisba Anguissola
Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family
ca. 1580-90
oil on panel
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

Etruscan Culture
Miniature Caryatid
330-250 BC
terracotta
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous Austrian Artist
Half-Length Study of Model
ca. 1900
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

attributed to Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1720-30
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Roger Fenton
Bust of Homer
ca. 1854-58
albumen print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Roger Fenton
Bust of Homer
ca. 1854-58
albumen print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

James Montgomery Flagg
Marriage Request
ca. 1905
drawing
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Etruscan Culture
Cinerary Coffer
150-100 BC
painted terracotta
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Fra Angelico
Virgin and Child with Saints
ca. 1430
tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ansel Adams
Alfred Stieglitz with Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, New York
1944
gelatin silver print
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Etruscan Culture 
Winged Woman with Amphora
390 BC
terracotta akroterion [gable]
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

James Montgomery Flagg
Quick Lunch
1910
drawing
(magazine illustration)
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

from The Swimmer

You sat in the tub.
No sand stirred, the dead
waited in the ocean.
Then the tapwater
flooded over you,
sapphire and emerald.

The beach
is as you found it,
littered with objects.
They have brought me here;
I rifle through them,
shell and bone, and am not satisfied.

– Louise Glück (1975)