Supporting Characters

Bernardino Campi
Mary Magdalen
ca. 1560
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1620
oil on panel
San Diego Museum of Art

Mary Beale
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1672
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Frederick Sandys
Mary Magdalen
ca. 1859
oil on panel
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

Giovanni Brilli after Andrea del Sarto
The Magdalen with Alabaster Box of Ointment
before 1899
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Christ before Pilate
ca. 1500-1505
engraving
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fernando Gallego
Pilate washing his Hands
ca. 1480-90
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson

Charles-Joseph Natoire
The Calling of Peter
ca. 1740
oil on canvas (sketch for altarpiece)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri
St Peter delivered from Prison
before 1656
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Karel Dujardin
Denial of Peter
ca. 1663
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Remorse of St Peter
1739
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Willem van Herp
Christ's Charge to Peter
before 1677
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Anonymous Italian Imitator of Caravaggio
Martyrdom of St Peter
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Monogrammist A.H.
Incredulity of St Thomas
ca. 1505-1510
oil on canvas (altarpiece fragment)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Giulio dell'Angolo del Moro
Doubting Thomas
ca. 1600
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Paolo Finoglia
Doubting Thomas
before 1645
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Johann Ulrich Loth
Doubting Thomas
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

England Now

I like to be dead.

That's what the dead say.

I'd rather be dead than so-called alive.

I like the lack of feeling.

But you know what?

That's the way I've always felt.

That's my way. 

I'm feeling good.

I haven't been big on feeling.

I haven't been alive that much.

It rains all the time and it's cold in July.

Somewhere down south,

In the tropical humidity and heat

Of my brain below the belt,

Is where I vote.

I don't want any. 

I eat what's there.

I don't import.

I am England

Under these newish circumstances.

A people who are proud to be dead said

So loud and clear.

– Frederick Seidel (2018)

Allies

Guy Pène Du Bois
Café du Dôme
1925-26
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joan Eardley
Children and Chalked Wall 3
1962-63
oil and collage on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Jacob Eichholtz
The Ragan Sisters
1818
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mary Lloyd Estrin
Untitled
1977
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Walker Evans
Subway Passengers
1941
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Andreas Feininger
Greek Coffee House, Mulberry Street, Manhattan
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Larry Fink
Untitled
1971
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Hal Fischer
Handkerchiefs
1977
carbon pigment print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Gilbert and George
Here
1987
hand-colored photomontage
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nan Goldin
Naomi and Colette gossiping, Boston
1973
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Jan Gossaert
Hercules and Dejanira
1517
oil on panel
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, West Midlands

Peter Hujar
Zachy and Gamal Sherif (Twins)
1985
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Painter
Commedia dell'Arte figures Franca Trippa and Fritellino
ca. 1790-1810
oil on canvas
Museo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Miss Stevenson & Mrs Hardin
ca. 1895-1900
platinum print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Alex Katz
Isaac and Oliver
2013
oil on linen
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Two Girls under an Umbrella
1910
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Helen Levitt
New York City
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

On the extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;

    And was the safeguard of the West: the worth

    Of Venice did not fall below her birth,

Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.

She was a maiden City, bright and free;

    No guile seduced, no force could violate;

    And, when she took unto herself a Mate,

She must espouse the everlasting Sea.

And what if she had seen those glories fade,

    Those titles vanish, and that strength decay;

Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid

    When her long life hath reached its final day:

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade

    Of that which once was great, is passed away.  

– William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Litho - IV

Anonymous German Artist
No. 4711 Face Powder
ca. 1905
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Moriz Jung
Plastische Posen
c. 1905-1915
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Maximilian Liebenwein
Pallas Athena
1906
lithograph
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Opening of the Simplon Tunnel
1906
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Julius Klinger
Lustige Blätter (magazine)
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Günther Reinstein
Mozart Pianos
1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Austrian Artist
Veteran Artists of the Chat Noir, Paris -
Three Performances at Saal Ehrbar, Vienna
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische-Sammlung-Albertina-Vienna

Hans Rudi Erdt
Die Woche (magazine)
1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Géza Faragó
Digestol Glück
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hollerbaum & Schmidt (printers)
Hohlfeld Roller
(ledger-supporting platform on wheels)
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Rudolf Kalvach
Inspiration
ca. 1910
lithograph
(postcard produced by Wiener Werkstätte)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Aristide Maillol
Juno
ca. 1910
lithograph
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Emil Ranzenhofer
Cig Shoe-Polish Stick
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Oskar Kokoschka
Der Sturm (magazine)
1911
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ewald Dülberg
Aida - Hamburger Stadt Theater
1912
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
1912
lithograph
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig

But the Athenians stirred not from Aegina; but those that remained at Athens, both young and old, under the conduct of Myronides went to Megara; and after they had fought with doubtful victory, they parted asunder again with an opinion on both sides not to have had the worse in the action.  And the Athenians, who notwithstanding had rather the better, when the Corinthians were gone away erected a trophy.  But the Corinthians, having been reviled at their return by the ancient men of the city, about twelve days after came again prepared and set up their trophy likewise, as if the victory had been theirs.  Hereupon the Athenians sallying out of Megara with a huge shout both slew those that were setting up the trophy and, charging the rest, got the victory.

The Corinthians, being overcome, went their way; but a good part of them, being hard followed and missing their way, lighted into the enclosed ground of a private man, which fenced with a great ditch had no passage through.  Which the Athenians perceiving, opposed them at the place by which they entered with their men of arms and, encompassing the ground with their light armed soldiers, killed those that were entered with stones.  This was a great loss to the Corinthians, but the rest of their army got home again.  

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)