Opaque

Niccolò Nelli
Roman Emperor Vitellius
ca. 1550-70
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Roman Emperor Vespasian
1493
hand-colored woodcut and letterpress
(cutting from the Nuremberg Chronicle)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Jenny Rydhagen
Space Invaders
1999
C-print
KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo

Carlo Vimercati
Figure Study
ca. 1690
drawing
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Roger de La Fresnaye
Study for The Fourteenth of July
1914
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Jacopo Ligozzi
Study for Epitaph Frame
ca. 1578
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Daniel Hopfer
Interior of the Church of St Katharina in Augsburg
with the Parable of the Eye-Mote and the Eye-Beam
ca. 1510
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Designs for Paneling
ca. 1740
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Pierre Dubreuil
The Sculptor
1902
albumen print
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Roger Fry
Orchard: Woman seated in a Garden
ca. 1912-14
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Michael Henry Spang
Statue of Mercury
ca. 1760
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Virgil Solis
Hunt of the Calydonian Boar
ca. 1550-60
woodcut
(illustration to the Metamorphoses of Ovid)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Master of the Getty Froissart
The English Fleet in Flemish Waters
ca. 1480-83
tempera on vellum
(manuscript leaf)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Håkon Bleken
From the series, Fragments of a Dictatorship
1970
drawing
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Marcantonio Raimondi
Youth with Small Extra Body
1513
engraving
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Paul Guillaume
Portrait of couturier Paul Poiret
1927
oil on canvas
Musée Carnavalet, Paris

from Dezembrum

Tonight there are only the winter stars.
The sky is no longer a junk-shop,
Full of javelins and old fire-balls,

Triangles and the names of girls.

– Wallace Stevens (1942)