Bilateral

Charles Le Brun (designer) for Manufacture de la Savonnerie
Tapis d'alcove de la Grande Chambre du Roi aux Tuileries
1668
wool and linen
Musée du Louvre

Maison Grand Frères (Lyon)
Hanging Panel f or the Birth Chamber of Louis XVIII
ca. 1817-19
silk brocade with added embroidery
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Venetian Maker
Cup with Flowered Stem
17th century
blown glass
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Sculptor
Apollo
18th century
marble bust with eyes in pâte-de-verre
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Goldsmith
Plaque de Lumière
ca. 1630
enameled-gold candle reflector
paved with cameos, pearls and hardstones
(purchased by Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Master of Saint Veronica (German painter)
Veronica with the Sudarium
ca. 1410
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Anonymous French Makers
Reliquary
rock crystal sphere (ca. 1200-1250)
set into silver cup (17th century)
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Jacob Frères (Paris)
Tabouret du Salon de Madame Récamier
ca. 1800
exotic woods with silk garniture
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Makers
Basin
16th century
alabaster
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Makers
Chalice
ca. 1385
gilded and enameled copper
Musée du Louvre

Sherrie Levine
Untitled (Lead Chevron: 7)
1988
casein on lead
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alfred Jensen
The Acrobatic Rectangle Per Six
1967
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Warren Isensee
Body & Soul
2007
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Mathieu Jacquet
Head of Henri IV, King of France
ca. 1600
bronze
Musée du Louvre

Étienne Le Hongre
Ornamental Column
(for the Heart Mausoleum of Louis de Cossé, duc de Brissac)
1661
marble
Musée du Louvre

Benedetto da Maino
Portrait of Filippo Strozzi
ca. 1475
marble bust
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Makers
Vase
ca. 1540
jasper with gold fittings
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Mycenae

even if I am only more dust

piled on this desert & even

if I am plainer than a common

stone you just happen to look at –

look again at that other famous

city Ilium whose walls I broke

underfoot to empty Priam's house

& you will know how mighty young

Mycenae was – if my old age wronged

me I still have Homer's testimony

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dennis Schmitz