Monday, August 11, 2025

Heavy Titles - V

Felice Giani
Vestal Virgins showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate
ca. 1785-90
drawing
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Francesco Fontebasso
St Gregory the Great and St Vitalis interceding
with the Virgin for Souls in Purgatory

ca. 1730-31
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard
Scene of Persecuted Prisoners condemned to the Pyre
ca. 1830-40
oil on canvas
(modello for larger painting)
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Jean Fouquet
St Vrain, Bishop of Cavaillon, banishing Demons from the Possessed
ca. 1452-60
tempera on vellum
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Conrad Felixmüller
Blast Furnaces at Night, Klöckner Werke, Haspe
1927
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
Giordano Bruno - Das Neue Jahrhundert
(tragedy by Otto Borngräber staged at Weimar)

1902
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Siegwald Dahl
Salon in Dresden of the Danish Minister, Count Moltke-Huitfeldt
1851
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Carlo Ferrario
Ulrica's Hut
(stage-design for Giuseppe Verdi's Ballo in Maschera)

ca. 1870
watercolor on paper
Morgan Library, New York

Vinzenz Fischer
Allegory of the Transfer of Artworks
from the Imperial Gallery to the Belvedere

1781
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Someone Somewhere wants a Cable from You
1981-82
screenprint
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

William Powell Frith
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu laughing
at the romantic advances of Alexander Pope

1852
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier
Priam and his Family mourning the Death of Hector
1792
watercolor on paper
(sketch for painting)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier
Priam and his Family mourning the Death of Hector
1792
oil on canvas
Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon

Théodore Géricault
Grooms preparing Arab Stallion to cover waiting Mare
before 1824
watercolor and gouache on paper
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Corrado Giaquinto
St Helena and the Emperor Constantine
presented by the Virgin to the Holy Trinity

ca. 1741-42
oil on canvas
(modello for ceiling painting)
Saint Louis Art Museum

Åke Göransson
Pull-out Sofa with Odin Statue
ca. 1926-29
oil on canvas
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Soon there came into sight nearby the Island of Dreams, but it was faint and hard to make out.  The island itself was like the dreams in a way, in that as we approached, it receded before us, retreated, retired farther off.  At last we caught up with it and sailed into Sleep Harbor, as it is called.  . . .  The dreams themselves varied in character and appearance.  Some were tall and handsome, others short and misshapen; some appeared to be made of gold, others were poor and shabby.  There were winged dreams among them and monster-dreams and dreams in carnival costume – some dressed up as kings, some as gods, and so on.  Many of them in fact we recognized, having seen them before at home; they came up and greeted us like old friends, took us in charge, put us to sleep, and showed us most excellent and ingenious entertainment.  

– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)