Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Ornamental

Master E.S. (German printmaker)
Lovers seated on a Grassy Plot
ca. 1450-67
engraving
British Museum


Monogrammist A.G. (German printmaker)
Arms of Prince-Bishop Rudolph II von Scherenberg
and of the Chapter at Würzburg

ca. 1450-1500
hand-colored engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist I.G. (Netherlandish printmaker)
Candelabrum with Paired Chimerical Creatures
ca. 1500-1525
engraving
British Museum

Master of 1515 (Italian printmaker)
Bases of Five Corinthian Columns
ca. 1515
engraving
British Museum

Master G.A. with the Caltrop (Italian printmaker)
Doric Capital
ca. 1535-37
engraving
British Museum

Monogrammist P.S. (Italian printmaker)
after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Two Terms
1538
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monogrammist H.E. (German printmaker) 
Coat of Arms mounted on Tower with Personified Virtues
ca. 1560-80
woodcut
British Museum

Monogrammist P.R.K. (Netherlandish printmaker)
Design for Pendant
1609
engraving
British Museum

Jacob Matham after Hendrik Goltzius
The Golden Age
1620
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Machina del Mondo
ca. 1685
hand-colored etching
British Museum

Monogrammist J.B. (British printmaker)
Design for an Imperial Crown
(satire against Napoleon)
1804
hand-colored etching
British Museum

Henry Monnier
Des Messieurs de Bonnes Maisons
[coachmen and flunkies in distinctive liveries]
1826
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Matt Morgan
Florence Stover - Richmond & Von Boyle Comedy Company
ca. 1885
lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Gabriel Max
Monkeys judging Art
1889
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Amedeo Modigliani
Caryatid
ca. 1912-13
drawing
Denver Art Museum

Richard McLean
Medallion
1974
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Sarah Morris
Mandalay Bay (Las Vegas)
1999
household gloss paint on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

from Christ's Triumph after Death

It is no flaming lustre made of light,
No sweet concent or well-timed harmony,
Ambrosia for to feast the appetite,
Or flowery odour mixed with spicery,
No soft embrace or pleasure bodily,
    And yet it is a kind of inward feast,
    A harmony that sounds within the breast,
An odour, light, embrace, in which the soul doth rest.

– Giles Fletcher (1610)