Boxes

Jacopo del Casentino
Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints
ca. 1320-25
tempera and gold on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Pietro Perugino
Young Saint with a Sword
ca. 1503
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Bernardino Gatti
The Virgin with Dead Christ
ca. 1528
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Léonard Limosin
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1550
enamel on copper
British Museum

Giovanni Battista Naldini
St John the Baptist
1565-66
detached fresco
Museo Civico di Pistoia

Engel Jansz Rooswijk
Adam and Eve
1605
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Anonymous English Artist
Classical Architectural Fragments
ca. 1700
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Antonio Canova
Cupid and Psyche
ca. 1787-93
marble statue group
Musée du Louvre

Marsden Hartley
Himmel
ca. 1914-15
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Theo van Doesburg
Simultaneous Counter-Composition
1929
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Meret Oppenheim
Red Head, Blue Body
1936
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Walker Evans
Lucian Freud, London
ca. 1954
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alex Katz
Portrait of Ada
1959
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Günter Fruhtrunk
Violette Interferenzen im Rot
1968
acrylic on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Wendell Brazeau
Composition - Still Life
ca. 1970-74
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Caroline McNairn
Looking Outside
1987
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

David Salle
Byron's Reference to Wellington
1987
acrylic and oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Felix Randal

Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended,

Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome

Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some

Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?

Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended

Being anointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some

Months earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom

Tendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended!

This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears.

My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears,

Thy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal;

How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,

When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,

Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! 

– Gerard Manley Hopkins (1880)