Hart of the Wood (303/415)
William Caxton’s 1483 version of the legend of St. Eustace, from The Golden Legend. This is the wall painting in Canterbury Cathedral that inspired Russell Hoban’s novel Riddley Walker. Pisanello...
View ArticleMelvin Burkhart: Human Oddity
From Gods of Earth and Heaven (1989) by Joel-Peter Witkin
View ArticleThe Angel of History or, Progress (AMST310/HUM485)
From “Theses on History” by Walter Benjamin: A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are...
View ArticleSacco and Vanzetti portrait (225)
Ben Shahn’s Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco (1931).Based on this photograph by an unknown author:
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By de Chirico (1914): Lorrain (1639): Paris Metro Map:
View ArticleThe Raft of the Medusa (376)
This is the painting (poster) in Madame Sonya’s shed. Produced by Géricault in 1818.
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