Tempera

Anonymous Artist working in Ferrara
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1510
tempera on panel (predella fragment)
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara

Ben Shahn
Portrait of Myself when Young
1943
tempera on board
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Biagio d'Antonio
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1470
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fra Angelico
The Entombment
ca. 1438-40
tempera on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Robert Remsen Vickrey
Fear
1954
tempera on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni di Paolo
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1442
tempera on panel
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Domenico Beccafumi
Self Portrait
ca. 1528-29
tempera on paper, mounted on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Bicci di Lorenzo
St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm
ca. 1433-35
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

George Tooker
Homecoming
1949
tempera on panel
Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Bartolomeo degli Erri
St Dominic reviving Napoleone Orsini from Death
ca. 1467-74
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas (predella fragment)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alberto Savinio
Orpheus and Eurydice
1951
tempera on board
Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Uffizi), Florence

Antonio Pollaiuolo
Hercules and Antaeus
ca. 1470-75
tempera on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Giotto and workshop
The Crucifixion
ca. 1328-32
tempera on panel
Musée du Louvre

George Tooker
Government Bureau
1956
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous French Artist
Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian
ca. 1480-1500
tempera on panel
Brooklyn Museum

David Park
Boston Common
1935
tempera on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

George Tooker
Dance
1946
tempera on panel
private collection

from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Faun's flesh is not to us,

Nor the saint's vision.

We have the Press for wafer;

Franchise for circumcision.

All men, in law, are equals.

Free of Pisistratus,

We choose a knave or an eunuch

To rule over us.

– Ezra Pound (1920)

Bathers

Charles Verlat
Bathing Woman spied on by Deer
before 1890
oil on panel
private collection

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder
Bathing Woman
before 1835
etching
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Benjamin West
Musidora and companions Sacharissa and Amoret at their bath
espied by Damon
1795
oil on canvas
private collection

Pablo Picasso
Bathers in a Forest
1908
watercolor and gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Lodewijk de Vadder
Bathers
before 1655
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

Anonymous Flemish Painter
Diana and Nymphs Bathing
late 16th century
oil on copper
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Keith Vaughan
Bathers by a Grey Sea
1947
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Hans Gasser
Bather in Niche
before 1868
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Étienne-Maurice Falconet
Bather
1757
marble
Musée du Louvre

František Kupka
Bather
1906
pastel on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Massimo Campigli
Bathers
1952
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Giacomo Francia
St Elizabeth with young St John the Baptist
bathing the Christ Child supported by the Virgin
ca. 1510-20
engraving
British Museum

Joan Brown
Getting Ready for the Bath
1961
oil on canvas
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Antoine-Laurent Dantan
Bather with Dog
1833
marble
Musée du Louvre

Eugène Jansson
Navy Bathhouse
1907
oil on canvas
Thiel Gallery, Stockholm

Hans Unger
Stadtbad Aschersleben
1906
lithograph (poster for public baths)
private collection

Franz von Zülow
The Bath
1922
ink and pastel on paper
private collection

Song

The feathers of the willow

Are half of them grown yellow

    Above the swelling stream;

And ragged are the bushes,

And rusty now the rushes,

    And wild the clouded gleam.

The thistle now is older,

His stalk begins to mouler,

    His head is white as snow;

The branches all are barer,

The linnet's song is rarer,

    The robin pipeth now.

– Richard Watson Dixon (1864)

Envy and Detraction

Roman Empire
Bowl
1st century AD
cast glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joseph Cornell
Allegory of Innocence
1956
printed paper collage
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Park
Two Bathers
1958
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Hamilton Mortimer
Figures of Envy and Detraction
1779
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Roman Empire
Bowl
1st century AD
cast glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joseph Cornell
Constellation (Project for a Christmas card)
1953
printed paper collage with added gouache
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Park
Sunbather
ca. 1950-53
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Hamilton Mortimer
Banditti around a Tomb
ca. 1778
drawing
British Museum

Roman Empire
Bowl
1st century AD
cast glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joseph Cornell
Bear with Angel (Christmas greeting)
1953
printed paper collage, relief print and ink
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Park
Torso
1959
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Hamilton Mortimer
Head Studies
ca. 1760-70
drawing
British Museum

Roman Empire
Bowl
1st century BC - 1st century AD
agate glass slumped over mold
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Joseph Cornell
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter by Vigée-Lebrun
ca. 1960
printed paper collage
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Park
The Bathers
1959
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

John Hamilton Mortimer
Monsters
ca. 1778-79
ink and watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roman Empire
Inkwell
1st-2nd century AD
blown glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

from Six Odes

Not, Father, further do prolong

        Our necessary defeat;

Spare us the numbing zero-hour,

        The desert-long retreat.

Against your direct light, displayed,

        Regardant, absolute,

In person stubborn and oblique

        Our maddened set we foot.

These nissen huts if hiding could

        Your eye inseeing from

Firm fenders were, but look! to us

        Your loosened angers come.

Against your accusations

        Though ready wit devise,

Nor magic countersigns prevail

        Nor airy sacrifice.

Weaker we are, and strict within

        Your organized blockade,

And from our desperate shore the last

        Few pallid youngsters fled.  

Be not another than our hope;

        Expect we routed shall

Upon your peace; with ray disarm,

        Illumine, and not kill.

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)