Sunday, June 15, 2025

Elongated (Horizontally) - II

Johannes Kahrs
Untitled (Three Men Standing)
2008
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Anonymous Venetian Artist
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
18th century
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Georg Jacobsen
Still Life
1926
oil on canvas
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Lorenzo Lotto
Sermon of St Dominic at Recanati
1508
oil on panel
(predella fragment)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Franz von Stuck
Pietà
1891
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Robert Rauschenberg
Axle
1964
screenprint and oil paint on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

José Felipe Parra
Still Life with Walnuts and Meerschaum
ca. 1850-60
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts

Robert Zandvliet
Composition in Green, Yellow and Orange
2003
tempera on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Titian
Circumcision of Christ
ca. 1506-1507
oil on panel
(in ruinous condition)
Yale University Art Gallery

Björn Berg
Saturday Night
ca. 1950
etching and aquatint
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Jan Beutener
Turned Away
1996
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Sacrifice for Others in Defense against Human Brutality
1833
watercolor and gouache on paper
(modello for mural)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Sacrifice for Others in the Event of a Natural Disaster
1834
watercolor and gouache on paper
(modello for mural)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Matthias Strasser
Frieze with Apollo, Minerva and the Muses
1645
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Martin Speer
Martyred Saint
1738
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Helen Frankenthaler
The Facade
1954
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

It was about the time of the second grazing when, from a high lookout, Daphnis saw the flocks and Chloe and shouted out loud, "O Nymphs and Pan!"  He ran down to the plain, threw his arms around Chloe, and fell down in a faint.  When he was, with difficulty, brought back to life by Chloe's kisses and the warmth of her embraces, he went to their usual oak tree and, sitting at the foot of the trunk, he asked how she had escaped from such a large enemy force.  She told him everything: the ivy on the goats, the howling of the sheep, the pine that grew on her head, the fire on land, the noise at sea, the two kinds of piping – the warlike and the peaceful – the night of terror, and how although she did not know her way home, music pointed the way.  Daphnis recognized his dream of the Nymphs and the work of Pan; and he told her what he had seen, what he had heard, how he intended to die but was kept alive by the Nymphs.  Then he sent her to fetch Dryas and Lamon and their families and to bring what they needed for a sacrifice.  Meanwhile he caught the best of the goats and put a garland of ivy on it, just as the goats had appeared to the enemy.  Then a poured a libation of milk on its horns, sacrificed it to the Nymphs, and after hanging it up and skinning it, he presented the skin as a thank-offering.

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