Friday, November 13, 2026

Opaque

Auguste Renoir
Portrait of Romaine Lacaux
1864
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Anonymous Photographer
Panorama of Versailles
ca. 1880
hand-colored albumen print
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous German Printmaker
Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci with World Map
1507
engraving
Max Planck Institute for Art History, Florence

Edward Burne-Jones
Study for The Call of Perseus
ca. 1875
drawing
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Leopold Forstner
View into a Lane in Rijeka (Croatia)
1917
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Hercules ascending to Olympian Status
ca. 1790
oil on canvas
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg

James Thomas Linnell
Job and the Messengers
ca. 1851
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Carlo Maratti
St Peter in the Mamertine Prison
baptising St Processus and St Martinian

ca. 1695-96
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Half-Figures in the Street
ca. 1910-11
colored chalks
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Giovanni Battista Montanari
St George and St Theodore
ca. 1600-1610
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Francesco Ponte
Costume Design for the opera Solimano
ca. 1753
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

František Tkadlík
Académie
1818
drawing
Národní Galerie, Prague

Susan Watkins
Académie
ca. 1897
drawing
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Académie
1820
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Nora Heysen
Académie
ca. 1935
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Johann Gottfried Bodenehr
Portrait of Frantz Läubler
(murderer awaiting execution)
ca. 1726
mezzotint
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

from Thunder by the Musician

The sky would be full of bodies like wood. 
There would have been the cries of the dead
And the living would be speaking,
As a self that lives on itself.

It would have been better for his hands
To be convulsed, to have remained the hands
Of one wilder than the rest (like music blunted,
Yet the sound of that). 

– Wallace Stevens (1942)