Rounds

Masaccio
Birth Salver for a Noble Florentine Lady
before 1428
tempera on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lorenzo di Credi
Adoration of the Child
ca. 1505-15
tempera and oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

attributed to Colin Nouailher
Joshua
ca. 1541
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Léonard Limosin
The Judgment of Solomon
1555
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Battista Franco (il Semolei)
Allegorical Composition
before 1561
etching and engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frans Hogenberg
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba
1597
engraving
British Museum

Abel Grimmer
Skaters on the Moat outside St George's Gate, Antwerp
1602
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi)
Phaeton and Apollo
ca. 1634-35
fresco on terracotta
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Andrea di Leone
Head of a Man crowned with Laurel
ca. 1635
oil on panel
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara

Anonymous French Makers
Plate with Glaucus and Scylla
1641
maiolica
Musée du Louvre

Sebastiano Mazzoni
Death of Cleopatra
before 1678
oil on canvas
Museo Collezione Gianfranco Luzzetti, Grosseto

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan
1768
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Profile Portrait of a Man
ca. 1796-97
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Robert Indiana
Year of Meteors
1961
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Tadaaki Kuwayama
Untitled #125
1964
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Michael Heizer
Untitled no. 8 (Slate)
1974
polyvinyl latex on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Damien Hirst
Beautiful C Painting
1996
gloss household paint on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

from The Scholar Gypsy

Then fly our greetings, fly our speech and smiles!

        As some grave Tyrian trader, from the sea,

        Descried at sunrise an emerging prow

    Lifting the cool-haired creepers stealthily,

        The fringes of a southward-facing brow

            Among the Aegean isles;

    And saw the merry Grecian coaster come,

        Freighted with amber grapes, and Chian wine,

        Green, bursting figs, and tunnies steeped in brine –

    And knew the intruders on his ancient home,

The young light-hearted masters of the waves –

    And snatched his rudder, and shook out more sail;

        And day and night held on indignantly

    O'er the blue midland waters with the gale,

        Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily,

            To where the Atlantic raves

    Outside the western straits; and unbent sails

        There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam,

        Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come;

    And on the beach undid his corded bales.         

– Matthew Arnold (1853)