Saturday, November 1, 2025

Ornamental

Biagio Pupini after Michelangelo
Figure from lunette of Naason, Sistine Ceiling
ca. 1540
drawing
Musée du Louvre


Raffaello da Montelupo
Sheet of Studies
before 1567
drawing
British Museum

Jan Symonsz Pynas
Classical Warrior in Triumph
before 1630
drawing
British Museum

Nicolas Poussin
Studies of Roman Antiquities
ca. 1630
drawing
(formerly owned by Cassiano dal Pozzo)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Johann Balthazar Probst after Victor Honoré Janssens
Title Page for The Story of Achilles
1721
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Jean-Baptiste Pater
Les Baigneuses
ca. 1735
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Allegory of Civic Virtue
1813
drawing
British Museum

Samuel Prout
Palazzo Mocenigo, Lord Byron's residence on the Grand Canal
ca. 1832
watercolor on paper
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Joseph Noel Paton
Young Woman with Roses in her Hair
ca. 1850-60
drawing
British Museum

Carlo Ponti
Lion Sculpture at the Arsenal, Venice
ca. 1865
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

John Frederick Peto
Rack Picture for William Malcolm Bunn
1882
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

John Wardell Power
Basket of Fruit
1936
oil and gouache on linen
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

James Amos Porter
Still Life with Peonies
1949
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mary Potter
Red Still Life
1955-56
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Price
Silent Signals
ca. 1970
polyester resin on board
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario

Lucio Pozzi
Hermes
1994
watercolor on paper
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Ernesto Pujol
Rest from Walk #1
ca. 2004
digital print
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

from On the Duke of Buckingham, slain by Felton, the 23 Aug. 1628

Sooner I may some fixèd statue be
Than prove forgetful of thy death or thee!
Canst thou be gone so quickly? Can a knife
Let out so many titles and a life?
    Now I'll mourn thee! Oh that so huge a pile
Of state should pash thus in so small a while!

                             *

I'll pity ye at least thy fatal end,
Shot like a lightning from a violent hand,
Taking thee hence unsummed.    

                              *

    Yet should I speak the vulgar, I should boast
Thy bold assassinate, and wish almost
He were no Christian, that I up might stand,
To praise the intent of his misguided hand.
And sure, when all the patriots in the shade
Shall rank, and their full muster there be made,
He shall sit next to Brutus, and receive
Such bays as heath'nish ignorance can give.

                                *

– Owen Feltham (published 1661)