Sunday, November 30, 2025

Ornamental

Lucas Cranach the Elder
St Christina of Bolsena
ca. 1520-22
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Národní Galerie, Prague


Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints
1524
drawing (study for altarpiece)
British Museum

Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck
The Prodigal Son rioting with Harlots
1562
engraving
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Hans Ulrich Franck
Allegory of Chastity
before 1675
drawing (print study)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Aelbert Cuyp
Mariakerk in Utrecht
before 1691
drawing
British Museum

John Sell Cotman
Moonlight
(study for illustration to Ossian)
1803
drawing
British Museum

Joseph von Führich
Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels
1835
oil on panel
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Maria Cosway
Mother and Child
before 1838
etching
British Museum

Fortunato Duranti
Scene of Adoration
before 1863
gouache and ink on paper
British Museum

Walter Crane
Scene from Puss in Boots
1870
ink on paper
(design for printed illustration)
British Museum

Kenyon Cox
An Eclogue
1890
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Antonio Frasconi
Fish-Nets
1951
color woodblock print
Art Institute of Chicago

Terry Frost
Green and Orange
1970
lithograph
Tate Modern, London

Allen Frame
Cady Noland - phone booth - NYC
1981
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Gordon Cheung
Floating Worlds
2006
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Gordon Cheung
Monkey
2006
inkjet print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Maureen Dougherty
Young
2021
oil on canvas
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

On Himself, upon Hearing What Was His Sentence

Let them bestow on every airt a limb,
Open all my veins, that I may swim
To thee my saviour, in that crimson lake;
Then place my parboiled head upon a stake;
Scatter my ashes, throw them in the air:
Lord (since thou knowest where all these atoms are)
I'm hopeful, once thou'lt recollect my dust,
And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.

– James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1650)