Thursday, February 19, 2026

Headgear

attributed to Paolo Uccello
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1460-65
oil on panel
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston


Hans Shüchlin
Portrait of a Married Couple
1479
oil on panel
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci)
Portrait of a Goldsmith
ca. 1517
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1525
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Maler
Portrait of banker Wolfgang Ronner
1529
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Giambattista Moroni
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1570
oil on canvas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Zacharias Wehme
Anne of Denmark, consort of Elector Augustus of Saxony
ca. 1585
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Christoffel van Sichem after Jacob Matham
Head of Young Man
1613
woodcut
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Francisco de Zurbarán
St Lucy
ca. 1625-30
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giambattista Tiepolo
Head of Magus
ca. 1740-45
oil on canvas
San Diego Museum of Art

Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch
Portrait of court architect Nicolas de Pigage
ca. 1764
oil on canvas
Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg

Fratelli d'Alessandri (Rome)
Anita Herriman Vedder at age 18
dressed in the style of the 1830s for a Masquerade

ca. 1891-92
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Henry Havelock Pierce
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1905
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Greta Garbo
1930
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Raphael Soyer
Portrait of artist's model Marussia Burliuk
1943
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Harry Warnecke
Lucille Ball
1944
tricolor carbro print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Gail Skoff
Tinda
1975
hand-colored gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Divine Epigrams


        The dumbe healed, and the people enjoyned silence.

Christ bids the dumbe tongue speake, it speakes, the sound
Hee charges to be quiet, it runs round,
If in the first he us'd his fingers Touch:
His hands whole strength here, could not be too much. 

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)