Ornamental

Lucas van Leyden
Woman with Hind
1509
engraving
British Museum

Urs Graf the Elder
Standard Bearer
1521
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacopo Bertoia
Nymph and Satyr
before 1574
drawing
British Museum

Robert Le Lorrain
Galatea
1701
marble
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jakob Frey
Allegory of Sculpture
before 1752
drawing
British Museum

Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)
Hay Romps
ca. 1845
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Ilya Bolotowsky
Study for New York World's Fair Mural - Hall of Medical Science
1939
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Donald Friend
Studio Stairs, Firenze
1949
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

David Lance Goines
Leni Riefenstahl
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1972
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Die Nibelungen directed by Fritz Lang
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1974
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Images Médiévales
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1975
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Pandora's Box directed by G.W. Pabst
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1975
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Faust directed by F.W. Murnau
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1977
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1977
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Unpleasant Surprises
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1978
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

David Lance Goines
Ciné Arts Ball
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1978
lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Revolution
1986
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

The oracles are dumb,

No voice or hideous hum

    Runs through the archèd roof in words deceiving.

Apollo from his shrine

Can no more divine,

    With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.

No nightly trance or breathèd spell 

Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

The lonely mountains o'er,

And the resounding shore,

    A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament;

From haunted spring and dale,

Edged with poplar pale,

    The parting Genius is with sighing sent,

With flower-inwoven tresses torn

The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. 

In consecrated earth,

And on the holy hearth,

    The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint;

In urns and altars round,

A drear and dying sound

    Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint;

And the chill marble seems to sweat,

While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. 

– John Milton (1629)