Saturday, February 21, 2026

Apotheosis

Anonymous Italian Artist after Andrea Solario
Head of St John the Baptist
ca. 1575
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Richard Anuszkiewicz
Minos in the Labyrinth
1962
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

James Pradier
Satyr and Bacchante
1834
marble statue group
Musée du Louvre

Edward Poynter
Studies for Angel Figure
ca. 1878
drawing
(study for dome of St Paul's Cathedral)
British Museum

Girolamo Romanino
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1519
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Sol II
1965
acrylic on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

James Pradier
Prometheus
1827
marble statue (carved in Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Edward Poynter
A Dream of Love
1862
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Alen MacWeeney
The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland
ca. 1965-66
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Water from the Rock
1961-63
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

James Pradier
Psyche
1824
marble statue (carved in Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Edward Poynter
Head Study for Atalanta's Race
1874
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Anonymous Venetian Makers
Flask with Medusa Head
16th century
blown glass
Musée du Louvre

Richard Anuszkiewicz
The Cardinal Sanctuary
1963
acrylic on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

James Pradier
Apotheosis of Emperor Napoleon I
ca. 1834
plaster modello for unexecuted marble
Musée du Louvre

Edward Poynter
Head Study for Atalanta's Race
1876
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

James Nevay after Guercino
Head of John the Baptist on a Salver
with Cherubs supporting Image of the Saintly Head

1761
etching
British Museum

Homeward at evening through the drifted snow
The cows plod back to shelter from the hill
But ah, the long strange sleep
Of the cow-herd Therimachos lying beneath the oak,
Struck still, still, by the fire that falls from heaven!

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts


Homing at dusk – the snow falls on them – cattle
    Drift by themselves into the shed.
Look, still beside the oak Therimachos sleeps
    The long sleep: laid to rest by fire from heaven. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alistair Elliot