Thursday, August 21, 2025

Densely Composed - II

Auguste Renoir
The Umbrellas
ca. 1881-86
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Maria Marc
Frogs and Grasshopper
ca. 1911
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Adolph Menzel
Supper at the Ball
1878
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

William Klein
Vogue American Collection
1957
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Luca Cambiaso
Diana and Callisto
ca. 1570
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz
Life Class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
1826
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Harald Dal
Svolvær
1936
oil on canvas
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø

Ken Heyman
Peruvian Women learning to Read
1959
gelatin silver print
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

Jasper Hagenaar
Nightswimming #3
2021
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Dordrechts Museum

Hans Hofmann
Vase on a Red Table
1938
oil on panel
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Jenny Holzer
Untitled
(from the Truisms series)
1982
C-print
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Still Life with Sculptures and Flowers
1912
oil on canvas
Groninger Museum, Netherlands

Bjørn Krzywinski
Time
1991
oil on canvas
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

attributed to Carle von Aegeri
Fire from Heaven
1545
painted glass
Landesmuseum Zürich

Jean-Théodore Dupas
Three Horse Heads
from the French Line's Normandie

ca. 1934
gold and silver leaf on glass panel
Princeton University Art Museum

Kees Verwey
Studio Interior
1972
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Thaliarchus, who had been sent by King Antiochus to kill the young man, arrived in Tyre while these things were happening there.  When he saw that everything was closed, he said to a boy, "Can you tell me, please, why mourning has brought the business of this city to a halt?"  To him the boy said: "What a nuisance he is!  He knows but still asks.  Who can there be who does not know that this city is in mourning because its prince, Apollonius, suddenly disappeared after returning from Antioch?"

After hearing this news, the king's steward, Thaliarchus, joyfully returned to his ship and after a voyage of some time reached Antioch.  He made his way to the king and said: "Good news, Your Highness!  Young Apollonius of Tyre has suddenly disappeared because he fears the might of your kingdom." The king said, "He can go away, but he cannot get away." He immediately issued this edict:

A reward of 100 talents in gold to anyone who brings in alive to me Apollonius of Tyre, who does not respect my rule; 200 talents to anyone who brings me his head.

After the proclamation of this edict, not only Apollonius's enemies but even his friends were impelled by greed to race off on the manhunt.  They hunted for Apollonius on land, mountains, and in forests, by every method of search possible, but they did not find him.

– from The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre, after anonymous Latin manuscripts of the 5th-6th century AD translating a lost Greek text of the 2nd-3rd century AD, and translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989)