Foregathered

Liberale da Verona
Triumph of Fame
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Anonymous French Artist - School of Fontainebleau
Triumph of Chastity
ca. 1560
oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Jacob Hoefnagel
Triumph of Autumn
1605
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Dirck Hals (figures) and Dirck van Delen (architecture)
Festive Company in Renaissance Interior
1628
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Gerard van Opstal
Lidded Mug with Triumph of Silenus
ca. 1640
ivory with gilt-bronze mount
Musée du Louvre

Angelo Trevisani
Triumph of Scipio
ca. 1700-1725
oil on canvas
Newport Mansions Preservation Society, Rhode Island

Edme Bouchardon
Masquerade
ca. 1723-32
drawing (print study)
Musée du Louvre

Hugues Taraval
The Waking of Cupid
1781
oil on canvas (overdoor)
Wallace Collection, London

Felice Giani
Altar erected by the invading French in St Peter's Square for Napoleonic festival
1798
oil on canvas
Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi

 

Anonymous Italian Printmaker
Masquerade in Rome
1813
etching
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Eugène Boudin
Concert at the Casino, Deauville
1865
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes
Festival in Málaga
1872
oil on canvas
Colección Bellver, Sevilla

Simeon Solomon
Greek Festival
1873
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Camille Pissarro
Study of Outdoor Market
ca. 1900-1901
ink, gouache and wash on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Domenico Cucchiari
Parish Festival
1926
oil on canvas
Palazzo Cybo Malaspina, Carrara

Felix Nussbaum
Masquerade
ca. 1939
oil on canvas
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Max Beckmann
Baccarat
1947
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Commendatory Verse, printed in the first edition (1623) of The Duchess of Malfi

In the most worth of that well-deserver, Mr. John Webster, and upon this masterpiece of tragedy.

        In this thou imitat'st one rich, and wise,

        That sees his good deeds done before he dies;

        As he by works, thou by this work of fame,

        Hast well provided for thy living name.

        To trust to other's honourings is worth's crime –

        Thy monument is rais'd in thy life-time;

        And 'tis most just; for every worthy man

        Is his own marble, and his merit can

        Cut him to any figure and express

        More art than Death's cathedral palaces,

        Where royal ashes keep their court. Thy note

        Be ever plainness, 'tis the richest coat:

        Thy epitaph only the title be –

        Write, 'Duchess', that will fetch a tear for thee,

        For who e'er saw this duchess live, and die,

        That could get off under a bleeding eye?

– Thomas Middleton