Ritual

Anton von Werner
State Opening of the Reichstag in 1888
1893
oil on canvas
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Beauvais Manufactory
Audience with the Emperor of China
(from the Grand Mogul Cycle)
ca. 1715
wood and silk tapestry
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Hans Deiters
Künstlerfest Düsseldorf
1905
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous French Printmakers
Tournament Scene in the 12th century
ca. 1820
hand-colored engraving
private collection

Jean-Louis Forain
Congrès Eucharistique International, Lourdes
1914
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Henry Edward Tidmarsh
Oratorio Night, Free Trade Hall, Manchester
1893-94
watercolor and gouache on paper
Manchester Art Gallery

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Tierce
Neapolitan Peasants serenading a Statue of the Virgin
ca. 1765
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Albert Schindler
The Baptism
ca. 1835-40
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Lucien Simon
First Communion
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Musée Petiet de Limoux

Lambert Doomer
Samuel presented in the Temple to Eli
(portrait historié of Françoys Wynants van Beweste
and Elida Essing and their children)
1668
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans

Johann Peter Krafft
Victory Declaration of the Allies over the French after the Battle of Leipzig, 1813
1839
oil on canvas
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Jacopo Tintoretto and workshop
State Visit of Philip II of Spain to Mantua in 1549
(from the Gonzaga Cycle)
ca. 1580
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Mathias Gabriel Lory
Stone-Throwing in the Appenzell
1804
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Hans Baldung
Preparations for Witches' Sabbath
1510
hand-colored woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Else Lasker-Schüler
Procession of Priests and Monks in Jerusalem
ca. 1938
drawing (colored chalks)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Käthe Kollwitz
Memorial Print for Karl Liebknecht
1919
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

from Autumn Refrain
 

The skreak and skritter of evening gone

And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,

The sorrows of sun, too, gone . . . the moon and moon,

The yellow moon of words about the nightingale

In measureless measures, not a bird for me

But the name of a bird and the name of a nameless air

I have never – shall never hear. And yet beneath

The stillness of everything gone, and being still,

Being and sitting still, something resides,

Some skreaking and skrittering residuum,

And grates these evasions of the nightingale

though I have never – shall never hear that bird.

– Wallace Stevens (1936)