Sublimity

Hans Schäufelein
The Nativity
ca. 1508
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacopo Sansovino
Virgin and Child
ca. 1540
painted papier-maché relief
Bode Museum, Berlin

Orazio Samacchini
Cherub with Instruments of the Passion
ca. 1575
drawing
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie Flämische Barockmalerei
im Schloss Neuburg, Germany

Anthonis Sallaert
Glorification of the Name of Jesus
ca. 1630-40
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Bartholomäus Sarburgh after Hans Holbein the Younger
Därmstadt Madonna
ca. 1635-37
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Jacob van Ruisdael
Hilly Landscape with Bentheim Castle in the Distance
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

Marco Sammartino
Massacre of the Innocents
ca. 1650-70
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Daniel Sarrabat
Noah giving thanks for Deliverance from the Deluge
1688
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

James Sayers
Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful
1785
etching
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Johann Gottfried Schadow
Portrait Study of Herr Riese
ca. 1810
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Constantino Rosa
Brigands in the Campagna
1838
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Philipp Rumpf
Badinage at the Park Gate
ca. 1860
watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Théodore Rousseau
Farm in the Landes
before 1867
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Josef Sattler
Ex Libris - A. Marzolef
1893
lithograph
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Sergey Ivanovich Savrasov
Winter Twilight
ca. 1910
pigment print
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Charles Rushton
Portrait of photographer Meridel Rubenstein
1989
inkjet print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

from Hero and Leander

The lusty god embraced him, called him love,

And swore he never should return to Jove.

But when he knew it was not Ganymede,

For under water he was almost dead,

He heaved him up, and looking on his face,

Beat down the bold waves with his triple mace,

Which mounted up, intending to have kissed him,

And fell in drops like tears, because they missed him.

Leander, being up, began to swim,

And looking back, saw Neptune follow him;

Whereat aghast, the poor soul 'gan to cry:

'O! let me visit Hero ere I die!'

The god put Helle's bracelet on his arm,

And swore the sea should never do him harm.

He clapped his plump cheeks, with his tresses played,

And smiling wantonly, his love bewrayed.

He watched his arms, and as they opened wide,

At every stroke betwixt them he would slide,

And steal a kiss, and then run out and dance,

And as he turned, cast many a lustful glance,

And threw him gaudy toys to please his eye,

And dive into the water, and there pry

Upon his breast, his thighs, and every limb,

And up again, and close beside him swim,

And talk of love. Leander made reply:

'You are deceived, I am no woman, I.'

– Christopher Marlowe (1598)