art digest 02 / “A man is a god in ruins.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Squall - Andrew Wyeth, 20th century

Trodden Weed (1951) Andrew Wyeth

Stephen Seymour Thomas - The Violin Student

Parmigianino, Portrait of a Man with a Book. 1524, oil on canvas. Private collection.

Jan Van Huysum, Nature Morte avec des Fruits 1722

Mercury about to Behead Argus Ubaldo Gandolfi, c. 1770-1775

A Sleeping Legionary in a Helmet, Ubaldo Gandolfi

Sala degli imperatori, Galleria Borghese, Rome. Photographed by Max Hutzel, c.1960.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) Study of a Young Man (c. 1760)

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Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) Patroclus 1780 oil on canvas

(Nordic Summer Evening) Sven Bergh Richard, ca. 1899/90

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St. Matthew and the Angel by Guido Reni, 1635–40

Still Life with Goblet and Fruit by Jan Jansz. van de Velde (1656)

Vanitas Still-Life (1659-60). Pieter Claesz. (Dutch, c.1597-1661). Oil on canvas.

Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario, 1628, Pieter Claesz

Attributed to Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1623) A Young Shephard Circa 1620-1625

Portrait of a boy, Albert Anker

A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Relief Torso of a Young Warrior, Eastern Mediterranean, 1st half of the 3rd Century AD.

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818

Giorgio da Castelfranco (1478-1510) Double Portrait (attributed to Giorgione)

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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Marriage, 1993. Tempera on panel prepared with gesso

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Portrait of a man 1881 Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925)

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Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) The Village Lovers 1882

Emile Friant (1863-1932) Ombres portées 1891

Anne-Louis Girodet De Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824)

Alexandre Boucher (detail)

1819

Isidore Pils (1813-1875)

Two head studies

1840-1845

Christen Købke (1810-1848) Portrait of Frederik Sødring 1832

Charles-Marie Bouton (1781-1853) The Drawing Lesson 1826

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) Portret van een jonge man (detail) ca. 1640-1660

Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614-1669) Portret van Georg Pfründt ca. 1640

Pietro Canonica (1869-1959)

The artist in his studio, Charles Willson Peale. 1822, Pennsylvania academy of fine arts.

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Silenus cradling the infant Dionysus.
Roman copy of A.D. 1st-2nd century after a bronze Greek original of ca 300 B.C. presumably by Lysippos.
Medium: Marble

Mars Vigilant (Man in Armor Holding a Pike), Jan van Bijlert, ca. 1630

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Bo Bartlett - The Box, 2002 Oil on Linen

Details, part II: “Arabesque” series, contemporary, by Daniel Abel.

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Elliott Erwitt, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 1976

Male acephalic body Inspired by Greek statues. Marble. Roman period. after J. C.

Head of Jupiter. 1st.century AD. Roman. bronze.

Luis Veldrof, aposentador mayor y conserje del Real Palacio - portrait by Vicente López y Portaña, 1823 detail

A Vanitas Still Life with an Hourglass, a Skull, a Violin, a Snuffed Candle, Coins, Books, Musical Scores, Cards, a Sword, a Helmet and a Woolen Cloth on a Table draped with a Persian Carpet, North Italian School, second half of the 17th Century

The Open Window, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe

Still Life with a Lute and a Guitar, Nicolas-Henry Jeaurat de Bertry

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