Sunday, August 17, 2025

Pensive - II

John Quincy Adams
Portrait of Luise Eisner
1926
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Victor Arimondi
David C. - Nutritionist
1982
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Axel Revold
Portrait of a Woman
1910
oil on canvas
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

Gustave Boulanger
Académie
ca. 1850
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Louise Breslau
At Home
1885
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

Claude Monet
Portrait of Guurtje van de Stadt
1871
oil on canvas
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Jan van Calcar
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1540-45
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

François Clouet
Portrait of the duc d'Anjou,
later Henri III, King of France

ca. 1561
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Angelica Kauffmann
Clio, Muse of History
ca. 1770-75
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Arvid Fougstedt
Erik
1933
gouache on paper
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Portrait of a Girl
1885
oil on canvas
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Ancient Greek Culture
Head of Apollo
1st century BC
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Bjørn Arne Krogstad
Seated Figure
1974
acrylic and oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Michael Taylor
Portrait of Eric Heaton
1985
oil on canvas
Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford

Bertha van Hasselt
Portrait of an Old Woman
1930
lithograph
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Julius Zimpel
Self Portrait
1923
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Alexander lived thirty-two years.  His life was as follow.  From the age of twenty he was king; and he fought wars for twelve years – and won the wars he fought.  He subdued twenty-two barbarian nations and fourteen Greek tribes.  He founded twelve cities, namely Alexandria in Egypt, Alexandria by the Horpes, Alexandria at Issos, Scythian Alexandria, Alexandria on the river Granikos, Alexandria in the Troad, Alexandria at Babylon, Alexandria in Persia, the Alexandria named after the horse Bucephalus,  Alexandria named after Poros, Alexandria at the river Tigris, Alexandria by the Massagetai.

Alexander was born on the new moon of the month of January, at sunrise, and died on the new moon of the month of April, at sunset.  And they called the day of his death Neomaga because Alexander died young.  Alexander died in the year of the world 5176, at the end of the one hundred and thirteenth Olympiad.  From the death of Alexander to the incarnation of the Divine Logos by the Virgin is three hundred and twenty four years.  

– Pseudo-Callisthenes, from The Alexander Romance (2nd-4th century AD), translated from Greek by Ken Dowden (1989)