Fives

Anonymous Florentine Painter
Five Florentine Renaissance Masters: Giotto, Uccello, Donatello, Manetti, Brunelleschi
ca. 1500-1550
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Bissolo
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
ca. 1515
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Jan Wellens de Cock
Landsknechte
ca. 1520-25
woodcut
British Museum

attributed to Aurelio Luini
Five Heads in the manner of Leonardo da Vinci
before 1593
drawing
British Museum

Nicolas Tournier
Le Concert
ca. 1630-35
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Agostino Tassi
Musicians
before 1644
drawing
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, West Midlands

attributed to James Maubert
Portrait of Henry, 5th Baron Arundell of Wardour,
his wife Elizabeth and their Children
ca. 1710
oil on canvas
Savannah College of Art & Design Museum, Georgia

Alessandro Magnasco
Studies of Washerwomen
ca. 1710
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Paul Troger
Study for Five of the Twenty-Four Elders in the Book of Revelation
ca. 1735-45
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Fritz Hickmann
The Artist's Family
ca. 1860
oil on canvas
private collection

Daniel Huntington
The Field Family in the Garden
1869
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Illusion of the same man five times
ca. 1920-25
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Joseph Friebert
Five Figures in an Opera Box
1959
oil on board
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Jacques Lowe
NYC Boys playing in Empty Court
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Nancy Graves
Five Fans, Lampshades and Lotus
1982
bronze with polychrome patina
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

Andy Warhol
Portrait of Seymour H. Knox
1985
acrylic on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Judith Shea
Storage
1999
bronze
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Now you lie – a grape-offering,

A severed cluster, a bag of wine-juice –

In Aphrodite's gilded porch.

Never again will the vine your mother

Curl her kindly branch about you

Or spread over your head her scented leaves. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Fleur Adcock