Renderings of Antiquities

Maarten van Heemskerck
Studies of Roman Carvings
ca. 1532-36
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Polidoro da Caravaggio
Study of Draped Antique Torso
ca. 1530-40
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Antoine Lafréry
Horse-Tamers on Monte Quirinale, Rome (front)
1546
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Antoine Lafréry
Horse-Tamers on Monte Quirinale, Rome (back)
1550
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Claudio Duchetti after Antoine Lafréry
Opus Praxitelis - Opus Fidiae
(assigned titles reflecting wildly erroneous notions about authorship)  
1584
etching and engraving
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Giovanni Battista Cavalieri
Antique Sculpture known as Pasquino
(published in Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae)
1562
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Paolo Farinati
Herm
ca. 1575
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Willem van Haecht the Younger
Study of Antique Sculpture of Centaur
before 1637
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

François Perrier
Niobid
(part of antique group now in the Uffizi, Florence)
1638
etching
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Constantijn Huygens the Younger
Three Studies of a Classical Bust
1663
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan de Bisschop
Bust of Pompey the Great
ca. 1660-70
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Jan de Bisschop
Bust of Zenon of Kaunos
ca. 1660-70
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Francesco Sesoni
Study of Antique Statue
1746
etching and engraving
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Niccolò Mogalli after Nikolaus Mosmann
The Albani Antinoüs
(antique relief)
1767
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Arthur William Heintzelman
Cavalli di San Marco
1930
drypoint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Arthur William Heintzelman
Cavalli di San Marco
1930
drypoint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Fragment 

The Moon has veil'd her Silver Light,

The Pleiades have left the Sky;

It's now the silent Noon of Night,

The Love-sworn Hour is past; yet I

Alone, deserted, pining lie!

– Sappho (7th-6th century BC), translated by Joseph Addison (1735)

The Pleiads now no more are seen,

Nor shines the silver Moon serene,

In dark and dismal Clouds o'ercast;

The love appointed Hour is past:

Midnight usurps her sable Throne,

And yet, alas! I lie alone.

– Sappho (7th-6th century BC), translated by Francis Fawkes (1760)

The weeping Pleiads wester,

    And the moon is under seas;

From bourne to bourne of midnight

    Far sighs the rainy breeze:

It sighs from a lost country

    To a land I have not known;

The weeping Pleiads wester,

    And I lie down alone.

– Sappho (7th-6th century BC), translated by A.E. Housman (1893)

Tonight I've watched

The moon and then

the Pleiades

go down

The night is now

half-gone; youth

goes; I am

in bed alone

– Sappho (7th-6th century BC), translated by Mary Barnard (1958)

O'Keeffe at Home

John Loengard
Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
On the Roof, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
At Table, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
With book by Leonard Baskin, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Rattles of Rattlesnakes, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Pelvis, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Remains, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Cow Skull, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Antler, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Studio Workbench, Ghost Ranch 
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Brushes, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Easel, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Work in Progress, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Bird Nest, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Abiquiu
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

John Loengard
Books, Ghost Ranch
1966
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Homer the Fount

Being blind and indigent; having lived before ever the Sciences were redacted into strict rules and certaine observations, hee had so perfect knowledge of them, that all those which since his time have labored to establish Policies or Common-wealths, to manage warres, and to write either of Religion or Philosophie, in what Sect soever or of all Artes, have made use of him, as of an absolutely-perfect Maister in the knowledge of all things; and of his Bookes, as of a Seminarie, a Spring-garden or Store-house of all kinds of sufficiency and learning.

                From whose large mouth for verse all that since live

                Drew water, and grew bolder to derive

                Into thinne shallow rivers his deepe floods:

                Richly Luxuriant in one mans goods.

– Manilius (1st century AD), translated by John Florio and Matthew Gwinne (1603)

Roman Leavings

Ancient Roman Culture
Glass Installation
2023
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Ancient Roman Culture
Jug
1st century AD
blown glass
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Unguentarium
(ointment bottle)
1st-2nd century AD
blown glass
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Unguentarium
(ointment bottle)
1st-2nd century AD
blown glass
Seattle Art Museum

Ancient Roman Culture
Modiolus
(measuring cup)
AD 50-75
blown glass
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Roman Culture
Bottle
4th-5th century AD
blown glass
(excavated in Syria)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Bottle
1st-4th century AD
blown glass
Dallas Museum of Art

Ancient Roman Culture
Balsamarium
(ointment bottle)
4th-5th century AD
blown glass
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Palaestra Scene with Statues between Columns
2nd century AD
terracotta relief panel
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Roman Culture
Frieze Fragment with Bands of Ornament
50 AD
marble relief
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Roman Culture
Loculus
(fragment of burial niche with portraits of deceased)
AD 250
marble relief
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Roman Culture
Colonnette
(ornamental column)
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ancient Roman Culture
Colonnette
(ornamental column)
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ancient Roman Culture
Mural Fragment with Mercury
AD 200-225
mosaic
Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona

Ancient Roman Culture
Basin
2nd century AD
porphyry
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Ancient Roman Culture
Brick with Manufacturer's Stamp
AD 50-75
terracotta
(excavated in Switzerland)
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

from September Twilight

I gathered you together,

I can dispense with you –

I'm tired of you, chaos

of the living world –

I can only extend myself

for so long to a living thing.

I summoned you into existence

by opening my mouth, by lifting

my little finger, shimmering

blues of the wild

aster, blossom

of the lily, immense,

gold-veined –

you come and go: eventually

I forget your names.

You come and go, every one of you

flawed in some way,

in some way compromised: you are worth

one life, no more than that.

– Louise Glück (1992)