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Continental School " A crouching male holding a bow and arrow, inscribed in a circle" pencil on paper 20th century
This drawing reminds me of the 1978-born Italian Master Roberto Ferri, as if a rapid sketch of the Achilles he painted in 2017.
'The Wrathful Achilles', Sculpture by H.W. Bissen, in full Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798 - 1868), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark The title of this sculpture refers to the beginning of Homer's Iliad: the Greek hero Achilles sits wrathfully in his tent, angry about being slighted by Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces at Troy. The work was sculpted by the Danish sculptor HW Bissen in the 1860s. I particularly liked the setting of this work in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: the shadows from the dim lighting emphasized even more the umbrage felt by Achilles in his annoyed pose.
A kneeling warrior extends his right arm to protect against an attack from above. The sculpture is the result of an elaborate restoration work that combines ancient and modern sculptural fragments. The head, ancient but not pertinent, conveys the appearance of a young man with a Phrygian cap and a thick head of curls, and is assembled with a modern torso. Other ancient parts of the work are: the pelvis from the hips with the buttocks and the heel of the right foot. On the plinth are carved a bow, an arrow and a quiver on which the palm of the left hand rests. The ideal head, for the particular use of the drill, can be dated to the second century AD. The Torlonia Foundation.
Mosaic depicting Herakles drinking with Dionysos, Roman, 3rd century AD
from The Princeton University Art Museum
Allegorical Figures of the Nile and the Tiber, French school pair of bronzes with reddish-brown patina, ca. I7I5, attributable to the work of Corneille van Clève, who created an allegorical figure of the Nile and the Tiber, circa 1715, hence from exactly the same date from that in our post.
The work is also to be asoociated to two 17thcentury cast seen in Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, as well as to one similar pair attributed to Martin Carlier (ca. 1653- after 1700), seen at the Huntington Library in San Marino (California). and another 18th century French example part to Peter Marino collection, in New York.
By Jove, I almost forgot... my mind turning hollow...
Bust of Jupiter Roman, Empire First - 2nd Century AD, after Greek model of the 2nd Half of the 4th Century. BC Bronze, hollow casting
Willy Ronis (1910 - 2009), French photographer, the Post-war Humanist eye of Paris that fused periods back into Timeless emotions of Beauty.
A.Kusaka
With Akira Kusaka, journeying to our Dreams
Good Night!
Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils (1813 - 1875), Mercury', courtesy Bonhams and @ganymedesrocks archives.
Antinous, after an unidentified sculptor, a statuary probably inspired by the Capitoline Antinous, circa 130-138AD. It may be a resin cast, unless made out of alabaster, after the ‘Capitoline Antinous’ marble, which was found at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli. In 1733, it was one of a group of statues bought by Pope Clement XII from the collection of Cardinal Albani and displayed in the Capitoline Museum.
Hinter den Dünen beginnt der Wald (2024), a series of collages about the origins of queer desires, ca. 15x22 cm
D.M. Nagu, a German Collage artist, born ca. 1989, working and living in Berlin, started to exhibit his works on paper in 2014
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, 1524.
Oil on panel.
Courtesy Alain Truong
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1470 - 1533), a member of a family of artists, was the brother of Cornelius Buys I, also known as the Master of Alkmaar.
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) Bonne Nuit - 'A mon petit Marcel pour ses 22 ans', Thanking @rtabbert, via @edmdantes
