Showing posts with label agate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agate. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Pyre

Anonymous Spanish Makers
Reliquary Bust of St Ferdinand
ca. 1500 (head) and ca. 1850-1900 (bust)
partly-gilt silver and gems
Musée du Louvre


Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Risen Chris appearing to the Virgin
ca. 1490
tempera and gold on panel
Musée du Louvre

Jasper Johns
Pyre
2003
encaustic on canvas, with wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous English Makers
Etui Nécessaire
ca. 1760-70
case with agate panels set in gold
and containing gold implements
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Child with Mask, Chicago
1960
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Christopher
ca. 1472-75
detached fresco
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jasper Johns
Pyre 2
2003
oil on canvas, with wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous German Makers
Lidded Mug with Snail and Seashells
17th century
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
St James the Greater flanked by St Stephen and St Peter
1493
tempera and oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jasper Johns
Land's End
1963
oi -on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Anonymous French Maker
Biberon (infant feeding bottle)
16th century
blown glass
Musée du Louvre

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled
ca. 1949-50
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Three Heroes of Antiquity - Julius Caesar, Mucius Scaevola and Marcus Furius Camillus
ca. 1482-84
fresco
Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Jasper Johns
Zero through Nine
1970
lead relief
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous Japanese Maker
Vase in form of a Carp
before 1880
porcelain
Musée du Louvre

from In Time of War

Always far from the centre of our names,
The little workshop of love: yes, but how wrong
We were about the old manors and the long
Abandoned Folly and the children's games.

Only the acquisitive expects a quaint
Unsaleable product, something to please
An artistic girl; it's the selfish who sees
In every impractical beggar a saint.

We can't believe that we ourselves designed it,
A minor item of our daring plan
That caused no trouble; we took no notice of it.

Disaster comes, and we're amazed to find it
The single product that since work began
Through all the cycle showed a steady profit.

– W.H. Auden (1938)

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Workshop Work

workshop of Donatello
The Entombment
ca. 1448-60
bronze relief
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


workshop of Fra Angelico
The Annunciation
ca. 1452-68
tempera on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

workshop of Dieric Bouts
Man of Sorrows
ca. 1470-80
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

workshop of Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of a Young Man as St Sebastian
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

workshop of Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli)
Virgin and Child, with view of Venice 
(The Tallard Madonna)
ca. 1506-1510
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

workshop of Guadenzio Ferrari
Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1540
drawing (study for altarpiece)
British Museum

Miseroni Workshop
Bust of Victory
ca. 1550-70
agate, with 17th-century gilt-bronze mount
Musée du Louvre

workshop of Michele Tosini
Cleopatra with Asp
ca. 1560
oil on panel
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

workshop of Girolamo Muziano
Seated Prophet
ca. 1580
drawing
British Museum

workshop of Toussaint Dubreuil
Vertumnus and Pomona
ca. 1595-1600
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

workshop of Romolo di Francesco Ferrucci
Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar
ca. 1610
terracotta
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

workshop of Anthony van Dyck
Studio Copy of Self Portrait
1633
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

workshop of Leonhard Kern
The Goddess Diana
ca. 1635
ivory
Musée du Louvre

workshop of Guido Reni
Study Head of St John the Baptist
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

workshop of Domenico Piola
The Good Samaritan
ca. 1700
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

workshop of François-Hubert Drouais
Portrait of Louise Élisabeth de Maillé-Karman,
comtesse de Sorans (lady-in-waiting at court)

1757
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

I am beginning to lose patience
With my personal relations.
They are not deep
And they are not cheap.

– W.H. Auden (1930)

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Solos

Carlo Scarpa for Venini (Murano)
Ashtray
1935
glass
Museum of Modern Art, New York


Hiroshi Sugimoto
U.A. Playhouse, Great Neck, New York
1979
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Blaise-Alexandre Desgoffe
Still Life with Rock Crystal Vase in the Louvre
1887
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Saracchi Family (Milan)
Lidded Cup with Lion
ca. 1575
agate with enameled gold mounts
(collection of Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Diana de Solares
Untitled
2015
shoelaces and iron
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

David Stephenson
Dome #31202 (St Bernard’s, Plassy)
2000
C-print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Joseph Cornell
Untitled
1933
printed paper collage
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign
1981
screenprint on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Alvar Aalto for Huonekalu ja Rakennustyötehdas (Finland)
Paimio Lounge Chair
1931
laminated birch and molded plywood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Shi Guorui
Sidechair
2006
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

John Thomson
Siam Tiger
1865
albumen silver print from glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Erwin Wurm
Psycho VII
2010
painted aluminum
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Alison Watt
Boscawen
2019
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Paul Thek
Warrior's Leg
1966-67
leather, metal, plaster, wood, wax, plexiglas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Max Weber
Air Light Shadow
1915
plaster
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Studio Tetrarc for Alberto Bazzini (Milan)
Tovaglia Coffee Table
1969
polyester resin
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Isaiah Taber
The Moon viewed from Lick Observatory
1888
albumen print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Moving along the track which is himself,
He loves what he hopes will last, which gone,
Begins the difficult work of mourning,
And as foreign settlers to strange countries come,
By mispronunciation of native words
And by intermarriage create a new race
And a new language, so may the soul
Be weaned at last to independent delight.

– W.H. Auden (1928)