Gazing - III

Per Christian Brown
Alchemical Study 1
2014
C-print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Edgar Degas
After the Bath - Woman combing her Hair
ca. 1895-1900
pastel on paper
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Ferdinand Bol
Portrait of Catharina van der Voort and her brother Jan
1661
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Anonymous French Artist
Venus with a Mirror
16th century
oil on panel
Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon

Hans Rudi Erdt
Conrad Jacobsberg - Damenmoden, Königsberg
1911
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Ryggen
Sunday Afternoon
1939
oil on canvas
Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway

Francisco de Zurbarán
St Andrew
ca. 1635-40
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Privat-Livemont
La Réforme (newspaper)
1895
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Francisco Goya
Francisco Téllez Girón, 10th Duke of Osuna
1816
oil on canvas
Musée Bonnat Helleu, Bayonne

Christian Krohg
Braids
1888
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

William Tylee Ranney
The Retrieve
1850
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Master FP after Parmigianino
Personification of Astrology
ca. 1530-50
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Bernardo Strozzi
St John the Baptist Preaching
ca. 1644
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ
Bird Charmer
1870
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de, Reims

Mikkel McAlinden
Milk
1984
C-print
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

B.A. Huseby
Søren (Eye)
2015
C-print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

With that he fell from complaining into such a passion, as weeping and crying were never in so wofull a perfection, as now in him; which brought as deserved a compassion from the excellent Shepherdesse, who already had her heart so tempered with griefe, as that it was apt to take any impression that it would come to seale withall.  Yet taking a brave courage to her, shee stept unto him, kneeling downe by his side, and gently pulling him by the arme, she thus spake.

"Sir," said she, "having heard some part of your sorrowes, they have not only made me truly pitie you, but wonder at you; since if you have lost so great a treasure, you should not lie thus leaving her and your love unrevenged, suffering her murderers to live, while you lie here complaining; and if such perfections be dead in her, why make you not the Phoenix of your deeds live againe, as to new life rais'd out of the revenge you should take on them? then were her end satisfied, and you deservedly accounted worthie of her favour, if shee were so worthie as you say."  

– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)