Sunday, December 22, 2024

Unknown Makers (Italy)

Anonymous Artist
End Panel of Sarcophagus
19th century
marble
(pastiche of ancient Roman models)
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Anonymous Artist
Bust of Warrior 
ca. 1850-70
terracotta
(Renaissance Revival)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Artist
Jar with Head of Apollo
ca. 1800
maiolica
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Artist
Head of Proserpina
ca. 1770
marble
(after a statue by Gianlorenzo Bernini)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Artist
Young St John the Baptist
ca. 1750-75
marble
(after a relief by Desiderio da Settignano)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Artist
Head of a Patriarch
18th century
painted terracotta
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous Artist
Pannello Traforato
ca. 1680-1700
gilded walnut
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
Profile Portrait of Roman Emperor
17th century
marble relief
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Artist
St Sebastian
ca. 1600
alabaster statuette
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
Foot
16th century
marble
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
Inkwell with St George and the Dragon
ca. 1490
maiolica
(formerly owned by Hermann Göring)
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Anonymous Artist
Profile Portrait of Petrus Bon
ca. 1480-90
marble relief
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
Bust of St Bernardino
ca. 1475-1500
painted terracotta
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Anonymous Artist
St Sebastian
ca. 1450-1500
painted wood
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Anonymous Artist
Virgin and Child
ca. 1425
painted terracotta
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Artist
Virgin and Child
ca. 1400-1420
painted terracotta
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Song

Like a protected heart,
the blood-red
flower of the wild rose begins
to open on the lowest branch,
supported by the netted
mass of a large shrub:
it blooms against the dark
which is the heart's constant
backdrop, while flowers 
higher up have wilted or rotted;
to survive 
adversity merely
deepens its color. But John
objects, he thinks
if this were not a poem but
an actual garden, then
the red rose would be
required to resemble
nothing else, neither
another flower nor
the shadowy heart, at 
earth level pulsing
half maroon, half crimson. 

– Louise Glück (1992)