Saturday, September 19, 2026

Appearances

Desiderio da Settignano
Julius Caesar
ca. 1455-60
marble relief
Musée du Louvre


Bernardino de' Conti
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1500-1510
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Agnolo di Polo
Bust of Young Man
(fragment of Adoration of the Magi scene)
ca. 1515-20
painted terracotta
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

attributed to Jean II Pénicaud
Cleopatra
ca. 1540
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Titian
Portrait of Doge Nicolò Marcello
ca. 1542
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

attributed to Baccio Bandinelli
Profile Head of a Man
ca. 1550
marble relief
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Wenceslaus Hollar after Karel Škréta
Head of Youth
1635
etching
British Museum

Jan van Bronckhorst
Portrait of artist Jacob van der Does
1655
drawing
British Museum

Nicolas de Plattemontagne
Portrait of artist Jean-Baptiste Champaigne
with his wife Geneviève

1677
charcoal and colored chalks on paper
British Museum

Antonio Perfetti
Cameo Portrait of sculptor Antonio Canova
ca. 1805-1810
engraving
British Museum

Georges Jacquot
Une jeune nymphe descendant dans l'eau
1824
marble
Musée du Louvre

Arnold Böcklin
Portrait of Angela Böcklin
1863
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Antonio Salvetti
Reading
1894
oil on canvas
Museo San Pietro, Colle di Val d'Elsa

Rudolf Eickemeyer
Elsie Whelen
1903
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Robert Hardmeyer
Waschanstalt Zürich AG
1904
lithograph (poster for commercial laundry)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nickolas Muray
Rose Rolanda Covarrubias
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

L.S. Lowry
Lady on a Crossing
1964
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

draft passage for the Treatise on Human Nature

"When you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing but that from the particular constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it.  Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compared to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities in objects but perceptions in the mind.  And this discovery in morals, like that other in physics, is to be regarded as a mighty advancement of the speculative sciences: though like that too, it has little or no influence on practice."

– David Hume (ca. 1740)