Saturday, June 14, 2025

Elongated (Horizontally) - I

Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Laugh
2000
C-print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Per Christian Brown
Snow and Fire
2005
C-prints
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Robert Delaunay
Fenêtres sur la Ville
1912
oil on canvas
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Chris van der Windt
Ornamental Frieze with Daffodils
1898
watercolor
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Günther Förg
Coney Island
2000
acrylic on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Crispin Gurholt
Gallery View - Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
2012
C-print
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

Bjarne Holst
Three Versions of Judas
1991
oil on canvas
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Anonymous Artist working in Mantua
Sarcophagus Relief with Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1475-1500
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Raphael
The School of Athens
1509
drawing
(largest surviving Renaissance fresco cartoon)
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Gerhard Richter
Bach 1-4
1992
oil on canvases
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Roman Empire
Sarcophagus Panel with the Labors of Hercules
AD 190-200
marble relief
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #92
1981
C-print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Werner Tübke
Sicilian Landowner with Puppets
1972
oil on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Jeff Wall
Staircase and Two Rooms
2014
C-prints
(installation view)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Bartholome Zeitblom
Virgin and Child with St Anne,
flanked by St Barbara, St Margaret, St Dorothea and Mary Magdalen

ca. 1511
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Paul Signac
Le Pont des Arts, Paris
1928
oil on canvas
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Now it was clear to everyone with any sense that these apparitions and noises were the work of Pan and that he had some grudge against the sailors.  But they couldn't work out the reason; for they hadn't plundered any shrine of Pan.  But then, around midday, the general fell asleep (not without divine prompting), and Pan himself appeared to him and spoke in this way.

"Most unholy and impious of men, what madness has driven you to act so recklessly?  You've filled the countryside I love with war; you've driven off herds of cows, goats, and sheep that are under my care; you've dragged from the altars a girl whom Love wants to make the subject of a story; and you showed no shame before the Nymphs when they watched what you did, or before me – Pan.  If you sail on with these spoils, you'll never see Methymna, nor will you escape this piping that has made you so panic-stricken.  Instead I shall sink your ship and make you food for the fish unless, immediately, you hand back Chloe to the Nymphs and the flocks to Chloe, both the goats and the sheep.  So get up and put the girl ashore, together with the animals I spoke of.  I myself will be your guide on sea, and hers on land."

– Longus, from Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Christopher Gill (1989)