Showing posts with label mortality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortality. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Sebald

Sebald Beham
Alexander the Great with Bucephalus
before 1550
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Drummer and Standard-Bearer
1544
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Army on the March - Pikeman and Mounted Officer
ca. 1520
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Sebald Beham
Army on the March - Baggage and Followers
ca. 1520
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Sebald Beham
Three Soldiers
before 1550
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham
Abduction of Helen
before 1550
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Coat of Arms of Kress von Kressenstein
before 1550
woodcut
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Sebald Beham
Drawing Manual - Studies of Heads
1546
woodcuts and letterpress
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Sebald Beham
Drawing Manual - Studies of Heads
1546
woodcuts and letterpress
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Sebald Beham
Allegory - The Impossible
1549
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Ornamental Panel with Tritons
ca. 1530-40
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham
Virgin and Child with a Parrot
1549
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Death and the Family of Adam and Eve
1530
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Death and Three Women
before 1550
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
Death and the Shameless Couple
1529
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Sebald Beham
The Hour of Death
1522
hand-colored woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

In the end of the same summer the Athenians sent twenty galleys into Sicily under the command of Laches the son of Melanopus and Charoeadas the son of Euphiletus, for the Syracusians and the Leontines were now warring against each other.  The confederates of the Syracusians were all the Doric cities except the Camarinaeans, which also in the beginning of this war were reckoned in the league of the Lacedaemonians but had not yet aided them in the war.  The confederates of the Leontines were the Chalcidique cities together with Camarina.  And in Italy the Locrians were with the Syracusians; but the Rhegians, according to their consanguinity, took part with the Leontines.  Now the confederates of the Leontines, in respect of their ancient alliance with the Athenians as also for that they were Ionians, obtained of the Athenians to send them galleys, for that the Leontines were deprived by the Syracusians of the use both of the land and sea.  And so the people of Athens sent aid unto them, pretending propinquity but intending both to hinder the transportation of corn from thence into Peloponnesus and also to test the possibility of taking the states of Sicily into their own hands.  These arriving at Rhegium in Italy joined with the confederates and began the war.  And so ended this summer.

The next winter, the sickness fell upon the Athenians again (having indeed never totally left the city, though there was some intermission) and continued above a year after; but the former lasted two years, insomuch as nothing afflicted the Athenians or impaired their strength more than it.  For the number that died of it of men of arms enrolled were no less than four thousand four hundred; and horsemen, three hundred; of the multitude, innumerable.  There happened also at the same time many earthquakes both in Athens and Euboea and also amongst the Boeotians, and in Boeotia chiefly at Orchomenus.

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

Thursday, May 28, 2026

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)

Monday, May 25, 2026

Tabletops

Pieter Claesz
Breakfast Still Life: Herring, Shrimp, Bread, Orange, Wine
ca. 1623
oil on panel
Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne


Sebastian Stoskopff
Still Life
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Willem Claesz Heda
Still Life with Gilt Cup
1635
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
The Serving Table
1756
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

Thomas Hovenden
Still Life with Fan and Roses
1874
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

William Michael Harnett
Still Life with Violin
1886
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

George Platt
Still Life
before 1899
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Egron Campbell
Still Life
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Malcolm Drummond
Still Life with Coffee Pot
ca. 1914
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Samuel John Peploe
Still Life with Pears and Wineglass
ca. 1928
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Gerhardt Frankl
Still Life with Wine Glass, Fish and Lemons
1929
oil on canvas
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Nora Heysen
The Red Cabbage
1933
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Helen Lundeberg
The Shell
1951
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tom Wesselmann
Still Life #2
1962
oil paint and collage on board
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Leland Bell
Roses and Cymbals II
1979-82
acrylic on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Paul Wonner
Dutch Still Life with Flowers, Cartons and Desserts
1982
alkyd on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Norman Lundin
Simple Still Life no. 2
1985
oil on canvas
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington State

City

Right now, a dog tied up in the street is barking
With the grief of being left.
A dog bereft.
Right now, a car is parking.

The dog emits
Petals of a barking flower and barking flakes of snow
That float upward from the street below
To where another victim sits.

Who listens to the whole city
And the dog honking like a car alarm.
And doesn't mean the dog any harm.
And doesn't feel any pity.

– Frederick Seidel (2016)