Saturday, June 7, 2025

Side View - I

Meister Tilman
Double-Sided Reliquary Bust of a Saint
ca. 1475-1500
oakwood
Bode Museum, Berlin

Anonymous French Artist
Memento Mori
ca. 1520
ivory
Bode Museum, Berlin

Roman Empire
Herm - Bacchus and Ariadne
1st century AD
marble
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Michele Danesi
Theseus and the Bull of Marathon
(antique relief)
1842
lithograph
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Ancient Greek Artist
Funerary Lion
320 BC
marble
(excavated in Athens)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Julius Klinger
Finkenstedt's Vogelfutter
(advertising for birdseed)
1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Carlo Sarrabezolles
Centaur with Urns
ca. 1925
plaster
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Ludwig Hohlwein
Hermann Scherrer Sporting and Ladies' Tailor
1908
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Johann Georg de Hamilton
The Kladruber Stallion Cerberus performing a Cabriole
1721
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hans Hammarskiöld
Spanish Riding School
1952
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Battista Franco (il Semolei)
Skeleton Study
ca. 1550-60
etching and engraving
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Tom Gundersen
Social Democratic Icon
1991
color woodblock print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Albert Marquet
Drawing from a Cast after the Antique
in the Studio of Gustave Moreau

1897
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Bjørn Ransve
Head in the Style of Jacques-Louis David
1977
oil on panel
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Joakim Skovgaard
Foot
ca. 1885
drawing
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Gustav Klucis
Marching through the Third Year
of the Five-Year Plan

1930
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

I then narrated all of the adventures on our expedition away from Tyre – the voyage, the shipwreck, Egypt, the Rangers, the capture of Leucippe, the sham stomach at the altar, Menelaos's trick, the general's  passion and Chaireas's medicine, the kidnapping by cutthroats and the wound in my thigh (showing my scar).  When I reached the chapters about Melite, I modified my account of my behavior to emphasize my chastity (though I told no positive lies): Melite's passion and my self-control; her oft repeated pleas, disappointments, promises, and fits of melancholy.  I included in my narrative the ship, the voyage to Ephesus, our sleeping together, and, "I swear by Artemis here present," how she rose from bed as a woman from another woman.  I omitted only one scene from my synopsis, the fact that I subsequently discharged my obligation to Melite.  When I had given them the banquet scene and the false-confession sequence and brought the story up to the arrival of the Byzantine embassy, I said: "That is my side of the story; Leucippe's is much more intense: she was sold, enslaved; she hoed the ground; her beautiful hair was ravaged.  You see how she's shorn."

– Achilles Tatius, from Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by John J. Winkler (1989)