Pairs - V

Bonino da Campione
Mourning Virgin
ca. 1390
marble statuette
(from Crucifixion group)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Bonino da Campione
St John the Evangelist
ca. 1390
marble statuette
(from Crucifixion group)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Antonio Vivarini
St Clare
1451
tempera on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Antonio Vivarini
St John the Baptist
1451
tempera on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans Holbein the Elder
Entry into Jerusalem
1501
tempera and oil on panel
(predella fragment)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Hans Holbein the Elder
Agony in the Garden
1501
tempera and oil on panel
(predella fragment)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Michiel Coxie
Fall of Man
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Michiel Coxie
Expulsion from Paradise
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Adriaen Collaert
Peter's Denial of Christ is Foretold
ca. 1590
engraving
Morgan Library, New York

Adriaen Collaert
The Veil of the Temple is Torn in Two
ca. 1590
engraving
Morgan Library, New York

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
Jacob's Reconciliation with Esau
1640-42
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
Gideon's Army tested by the Lord
1640-42
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio)
Joseph recognizing his Brothers
ca. 1680
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (il Baciccio)
Joseph telling his Dreams to his Brothers
ca. 1680
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

James Tissot
God creating Eve
ca. 1900-1902
gouache on board
Morgan Library, New York

James Tissot
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
ca. 1900-1902
gouache on board
Morgan Library, New York

from Electrical Storm

Your smile occurs everywhere when it occurs, 
its left-over glimmer's in this late summer

weather, in the sheen on the wasp's tiered back,

in those exhausted marks of torsion on the sky.
It leaves me marvelling at my conventional hunger,
though the scales of the sea will settle back on me,

and the leaves drop from a hibernating sky,

and my grey eyes turn colour. Your absence
leaves its stain on the day like those shadows
that leak from the sides of tall buildings,
flow down small streets and mix with the night
in which I can never think of you belonging.

– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (2006)