Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Centered - III

Lyubov Popova
Artistic Clothing no. 1
1921
gouache on paper
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Alexander Rodchenko
Maїakovski - 20 ans de travail
ca. 1975
lithograph
(Pompidou Center poster reproducing 1926 original)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gisbert Combaz
La Libre Esthetique
1895
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Brussels

Hans Looschen
Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung
1912
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Georg Lemberger
Title-Page - Old Testament
1524
hand-colored woodcut and letterpress
(leaf from the "Luther" Bible)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hans Wechtlin
Ornamental Title-Page Border
1557
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Rudolf Decker
Monumental Capitals from Decker Type Foundry, Berlin
ca. 1900
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

August Sander
Pianist (Max van de Sandt)
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Mette Tronvoll
Eline, Villa Stenersen
2002
C-print
KODE (Art Museum Complex), Bergen, Norway

Upson (Hampton, Iowa)
Two Women
ca. 1880-90
collodion silver print
(cabinet card)
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Felice Beato
Untitled
ca. 1865
albumen print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous German Artist
Portrait of Frau Aloisia Gerling
ca. 1845
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Bernhard Pankok
Portrait of Karl Ernst Osthaus
1918
oil on canvas
Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Albrecht Dürer
Ornamental Column with Seated Satyr
1517
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Greek Culture in South Italy
Askos
300 BC
terracotta
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Hans Thoma
Logo Design with Helios driving Chariot of the Sun 
(Helios Actien Electric Light Company, Frankfurt)
1886
oil on cardboard, mounted on metal
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt

Though a tearful fate befell thee, O Euripides, devoured by wolf-hounds, thou, the honey-voiced nightingale of the stage, the ornament of Athens, who didst mingle the grace of the Muses with wisdom, yet thou wast laid in the tomb at Pella, that the servant of the Pierian Muses should dwell near the home of his mistresses.

Hail Euripides, dwelling in the chamber of eternal night in the dark-robed valleys of Pieria! Know, though thou art under earth, that thy renown shall be everlasting, equal to the perennial charm of Homer.

All Hellas is the monument of Euripides, but the Macedonian land holds his bones, for it sheltered the end of his life. His country was Athens, the Hellas of Hellas, and as by his verse he gave exceeding delight, so from many he receiveth praise.

This is not thy monument, Euripides, but thou are the memorial of it, for by thy glory is this monument encompassed.

Thy delicate flesh encompassed by the blast of glowing fire yielded up its moisture and burned away. In the much-wept tomb is naught but dumb bones, and sorrow for the wayfarers who pass this way.

The Macedonian dust of the tomb covers thee, Euripides, but ere thou didst put on this cloak of earth thou wast scorched by the bolts of Zeus. For thrice the heaven lightened at his word and purified thy mortal frame.

Neither dogs slew thee, Euripides, nor the rage of women, thou enemy of the secrets of Cypris, but Death and old age, and under Macedonian Arethusa thou liest, honoured by the friendship of Archelaus. Yet it is not this that I account thy tomb, but the altar of Bacchus and the buskin-trodden stage. 

– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)