Spencer Alley: July 2025

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Picture-Glass

Jost Amman
Fool
before 1591
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Hans Bock the Elder
Standard-Bearers with Arms of Basel
ca. 1567
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Solomon's Idolatry
before 1550
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Knight and Horseman (Jouster and Marshall)
before 1522
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Lautenbach Master
Man of Sorrows
ca. 1480
painted glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lautenbach Master
Mater Dolorosa
ca. 1480
painted glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Daniel Lindtmayer
Arms of Lucerne with Wild Men
1601
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Daniel Lindtmayer
Arms of von Fulach and von Reischach families
1586
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Master of Saint Severin
St Bernard exhorting the Sick
after 1535
painted glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gabriele Münter
Forest
ca. 1910-20
oil on glass
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gabriele Münter
Forest Path
ca. 1910-20
oil on glass
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Christoph Murer
Adoration of the Magi
1595
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Hans Schäufelein
St Benedict aiding Maurus to save Placidus
ca. 1500
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Joseph Southall
Study of Stained Glass in Beauvais Cathedral
Group of Ladies Kneeling in Reverence
ca. 1898
drawing (ink and watercolor on paper)
British Museum

Tobias Stimmer
Builders constructing a House
ca. 1558-60
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Jan Swart van Groningen
Joseph taken from the Well
and sold to the Ishmaelites
before 1553
drawing (design for glass painting)
British Museum

Tiffany & Co.
Landscape Triptych
ca. 1910-20
leaded glass
Princeton University Art Museum

Erechtheum, temple at Athens

erector, one who, or that which erects, not -er

erethism (path.), excitement, not ery-

Erevan, Armenia, use Yerevan
Erewhon, by Butler, 1872
erf (Afrik.), plot of ground; pl. erven
erg, unit of work

ergo (Lat.), therefore (ital.)
Erie, one of the Great Lakes (US and Canada)
Erin go bragh (Ir.), Erin for ever

eschatology, (theol.) doctrine of last things
escheator, official who watches over forfeited property, not -er
eschscholtzia, a yellow-flowered plant
esconce, use ens-
Escorial, Spain, not Escu-
escritoire, not -oir (not ital.)
Esculap/ius, -ian, use Ae-

escutcheon, heraldic shield, plate for keyhole, etc., not scut-

– The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary Department, Oxford University Press (12th edition, 1981)

Satyrs

Albrecht Altdorfer
Satyr Family in a Landscape
1507
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Satyr and Panther
ca. 1615
marble fountain
Bode Museum, Berlin

Théodore Géricault
Satyr seizing Woman
before 1824
drawing
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Hellenistic Greek Culture
Dionysus with Pan and small Satyr
AD 170-180
marble table support
(excavated in Ionia)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Hellenistic Greek Culture
Satyrs unveiling Nymph within Tendrils
1st century BC
marble table support
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hellenistic Greek Culture
Torso of Dancing Satyr
AD 75-100
marble
(excavated in Ionia)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Florentine Artist
Bust of a Satyr
ca. 1600-1625
bronze
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Master IB
Satyress with Children
ca. 1500-1510
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Marcantonio Raimondi
Satyr discovering Resting Nymph
1506
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Girolamo Romanino
Concert Champêtre with Nymphs and Satyrs
ca. 1531-32
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Bust of Satyr
2nd century AD
marble
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Bacchanalian Procession
AD 125-150
marble sarcophagus relief
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Bacchanalian Procession
AD 150
marble sarcophagus relief
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Satyr
2nd century AD
marble
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Roman Empire
Satyr
AD 50
marble
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roman Empire
Satyr pouring Wine
AD 150
marble
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Then he [King Hydaspes] addressed himself to Charikleia and asked in Greek (for this language is cultivated among the naked sages and rulers of Ethiopia): "As for you, girl, why do you say nothing? Why do you make no answer to my questions?"

"At the altars of the gods, for whom we know we are being kept as sacrifice," she replied, "there shall you know who I am and who are my mother and father."

"And just where in the world are your mother and father?" asked Hydaspes.

"They are here," she answered. "They will be there at my sacrifice, have no doubt!"

Hydaspes smiled again. "My dream child really is a creature of dreams," he said, "if she imagines that her mother and father will be transported from Greece to the heart of Meroes! Bring them with us and pay them the customary attentions; they must want for nothing if they are to grace our sacrifice. But who is this standing here? He looks like a eunuch."

"He is indeed a eunuch," replied one of the attendants. "His name is Bagoas, and he is Oroondates' most-valued possession."

"Let him go with them too," ordered Hydaspes, "not as a sacrificial victim but to protect one of the victims: this girl, who is so young and beautiful that much careful thought is required to keep her free from stain until the hour of our sacrifice. Jealousy is endemic in eunuchs: they are employed to prevent others enjoying the pleasures of which they are themselves deprived."

So saying, he continued his inspection of the prisoners as each came in turn before him, and decided their fates. Those whom fortune had marked as born to be slaves he gave away, while those who were well-born he allowed to go free. He selected ten young men and an equal number of girls from those who were notable for their youthful beauty, and commanded that they should be taken south with Theagenes and his companions, to serve the same purpose.

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)

Mucha

Alphonse Mucha
Textile Design - Bellflowers
ca. 1895
watercolor and ink on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Alphonse Mucha
Textile Design - Honeysuckle and Hollyhocks
ca. 1897-98
watercolor and graphite on paper
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Alphonse Mucha (designer)
Textile Panel - Femme à Marguerite
ca. 1898-1900
screenprinted cotton
Art Institute of Chicago

Alphonse Mucha
Design for Biscuit Box
ca. 1897
lithograph
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Alphonse Mucha
Sarah Bernhardt in Gismonda
at Théâtre de la Renaissance
1894
lithograph (poster)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Alphonse Mucha
Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camélias
at Théâtre de la Renaissance
1896
lithograph (poster)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum