Forthright

Julian Schnabel
José Luis Ferrer
1998
resin on board over screenprint
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Martin Schongauer
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1675
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

William Sommer
Portrait of artist Rolf Stoll
ca. 1925
oil on board
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

John Smart
Miniature Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman
1809
watercolor on ivory
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jakob Seydelmann after Annibale Carracci
Head of Christ
1793
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Dirck Dircksz Santvoort
Portrait of a Girl as a Shepherdess
1632
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Dirck Dircksz Santvoort
Portrait of a Boy as a Shepherd
1632
oil on panel
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Dugald Stermer
Dick Cavett
1971
acrylic on canvas
(commissioned by Time magazine)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Jan Saenredam after Abraham Bloemaert
Skull
ca. 1600
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Mrs Augustus Hemenway
1890
oil on canvas
Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Georg Friedrich Schmidt
Portrait Study of a Girl
ca. 1740-50
pastel on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacques van Schuppen
Self Portrait
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Jan Sluijters
Portrait of Mrs. Th. J. Hintzen s'Jacob
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Johann Scheffer von Leonhardshoff
Self Portrait
ca. 1820
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Elizabeth Emma Soyer
The Escape: Young Girl with Bird Cage
1836
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Francesco Scavullo
Sting
1984
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi)
St Apollonia
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

from The Thebaid

[Tisiphone answers the summons of Oedipus]

    The Fury heard, while on Cocytus' Brink
Her Snakes, unty'd, Sulphureous Waters drink;

But at the Summons, roll'd her Eyes around,

And snatch'd the starting Serpents from the Ground.

Not half so swiftly shoots along in Air

The gliding Lightning, or descending Star.

Thro' Crouds of Airy Shades she wing'd her Flight,

And dark Dominions of the silent Night;

Swift as she past, the flitting Ghosts withdrew,

And the pale Spectres trembled at her View:

To th' Iron Gates of Taenarus she flies,

There spreads her dusky Pinions to the Skies.

The Day beheld, and sick'ning at the Sight,

Veil'd her fair Glories in th Shades of Night.

Affrighted Atlas, on the distant Shore,

Trembl'd, and shook the Heav'ns and Gods he bore.

Now from beneath Malea's airy Height

She mounts aloft, and steers to Thebes her Flight.

Does with glad Speed the well-known Journey go,

Nor here regrets the Hell she left below.

– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Alexander Pope (1712)