Rendering Textiles - III

Edward Burne-Jones
Envy
ca. 1872-73
watercolor
(design for stained-glass window series
with figures of Virtues and Vices)
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous Italian Artist
Studies of Seated Draped Woman
ca. 1690-1710
drawing
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Anonymous Italian Artist
Bust of Scipio
17th century
marble
Gallerie Estense, Modena

Christoph Amberger
Portrait of a Woman
1525
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Artist
God the Father creating the World
ca. 1550-1600
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Lorenzo Ottoni
Bust Portrait of an Elderly Lady
ca. 1680-90
marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert
The Flight into Egypt
1647
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar
Drapery Study
1816
drawing
(study for painting)
Princeton University Art Museum

Anonymous Spanish Artist
St John the Baptist
ca. 1550
alabaster
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Brocas
Aristides
1806
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Vincenzo Catena
Drapery Study
ca. 1515-17
drawing
(study for painting with Annunciatory Angel)
Morgan Library, New York

Jacques Buirette
Amazon
ca. 1684-93
marble garden statue
(after antique original in Rome)
Château de Versailles

Hendrick ter Brugghen
Bacchante with Ape
1627
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Edme Bouchardon
Standing Figure with Owl
ca. 1732
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roman Empire
Caryatid
AD 100-150
marble
(former Chigi Collection, Rome, where displayed
with 17th-century head and arms, since removed)
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

When Helen Lived

We have cried in our despair
That men desert,
For some trivial affair
Or noisy, insolent sport,
Beauty that we have won
From bitterest hours;
Yet we, had we walked within
Those topless towers
Where Helen walked with her boy,
Had given but as the rest
Of the men and women of Troy,

A word and a jest.

– W.B. Yeats (1914)