Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Bilateral

Roman Empire
Basin
1st century AD
giallo antico marble
(collection of Louis XVI)
Musée du Louvre


Mark Rothko
No. 5
1958
oil and acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista della Rovere (il Fiammenghino)
Angels with Instruments of St Sebastian's Martyrdom
1602
drawing
British Museum

Ventura Salimbeni
Self Portrait
ca. 1605
drawing (frame drawn by later hand)
British Museum

Fanny Sanín
Acrylic no. 6
1975
acrylic on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Katia Santibañez
Untitled
2002
acrylic on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Andres Serrano
Cactus Blood
1987
C-print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Sèvres Manufactory
Cabinet
1848
ebony ornamented with porcelain figures,
enamel plaques and gilt-bronze fittings
Musée du Louvre

Charles Sheeler
Egyptian Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1942-45
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Frank Stella
Sacramento Mall Proposal #4
1978
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Thomas Struth
Milan Cathedral (Façade)
1998
C-print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Henry Fox Talbot
Vase with Medusa Head
1840
salted paper print from paper negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous French Makers
Throne-Hanging of Charles VII - Angels bearing Crown
ca. 1425
wool and silk tapestry
Musée du Louvre

Antoni Tàpies
White and 10 Holes
1973
oil paint and sand on plywood
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Guillaume Thomas Taraval
Design for Festival Architecture
before 1750
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Design for Sepulchral Monument
before 1766
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

John Thomson
Twin Pagodas at Foochow
ca. 1869
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The man who first built up with good strong words
    the high-browed songs of towering tragedy,
Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, far from Eleusis
    lies here, and glorifies Sicily with his body. 

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Alistair Elliot