Friday, February 13, 2026

Darknesses

Anonymous Flemish Artist
The Crowning with Thorns
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre


Anonymous Italian Artist
St Jerome in the Wilderness
17th century
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Anonymous Italian Artist
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Anonymous Italian Artist
David with the Head of Goliath
ca. 1610
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Anonymous Italian Artist
St Jerome
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Christ at the Column
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Christ crowned with Thorns
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Miguel March
St Onofrio
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Miguel March
St Paul the Hermit
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia

Palma il Giovane
Dead Christ supported by Angels
ca. 1612
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Scarsellino (Ippolito Scarsella)
Noli me tangere
before 1620
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giovanni Serodine
St Peter and St Paul conducted to Martyrdom
ca. 1625-26
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Leonello Spada
Christ crowned with Thorns
ca. 1610-20
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Alessandro Turchi (l'Orbetto)
Dead Christ mourned by the Magdalen and Angels
ca. 1645-50
oil on slate
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Valentin de Boulogne
Penitent St Jerome
1628
oil on canvas
Musei Civico e Diocesano
nell'Edificio Venanzina Pennesi, Camerino

Valentin de Boulogne
St John the Baptist
1629
oil on canvas
Musei Civico e Diocesano
nell'Edificio Venanzina Pennesi, Camerino

Diego Velázquez
Sufferings of Christ contemplated by the Christian Soul
ca. 1628-29
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Roused by November seas, wrecked on Italian rocks,
    a kraken squid was washed ashore:
The masters of the cattle-ships set up this,
    its huge rib, in homage to the Gods.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by W.G. Shepherd