c. 530 BCE | Acropolis Museum Athens
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Picasso
Woman in a Green Hat 1947 92 x 73 cm | Albertina Vienna
Ottawa
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde Tingel-Tangel II 1907 Farblithographie, Tusche, Pinsel, dreifarbig (Dunkleblau, Rot, Violett)
Image 32.5 x 48.5 cm
Ovid Among the Scythians
top
Year 1859
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 87.6 cm × 130.2 cm (34.5 in × 51.3 in)
Location National Gallery, London
bottom
Year 1862
Type Oil on wood
Dimensions 32.1 cm × 50.2 cm (12.6 in × 19.8 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Poussin
top : Poussin Landscape with a Man Washing his Feet at a Fountain c1648 Dulwich Picture Gallery
bottom : Landscape with Travellers Resting [ A Roman Road ] 1648 Dulwich Picture Gallery
Watteau
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684?1721)
La Surprise: A Couple Embracing While a Figure Dressed as Mezzetin Tunes a Guitar, 1718?19
oil on panel, 14 ½ x 11 ½ inches
Frick Collection NY
Indian
top : “The Lover Prepares to Depart,” from around 1710 and attributed to Golu of Nurpur.
Credit: Collection of Barbara and Eberhard Fischer, Museum Rietberg, Zurich
bottom : Tara’s painting of Maharana Sarup Singh and his courtiers celebrating the festival of Holi, from 1850. Credit: City Palace Museum, Udaipur
from : ‘Wonder of the Age’: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900 MMA NY
Cimabue
Cimabue (Cenni di Peppo) (c. 1240 – c. 1302)
The Flagellation of Christ, c. 1280
tempera on poplar panel
9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (24.8 x 20 cm)
The Frick Collection
Mondrian
Mondrian in his atelier, circa October 1933, with Lozenge Composition with Four Yellow Lines, 1933 and Composition with Double Line and Yellow, circa 1933, unfinished
Compositie met gele lijnen. 1933. Oil on canvas, diagonal 133. Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands
see also Jan Andriesse
Twombley
The Empire of Flora 1961
Poussin
The Empire of Flora 1631
emaki
parts of an emaki scroll dating from the Heian period in Japan [ 794?1185 ]
two drawings
Shen Yueh
Three poems by Shen Yueh on Buddhism circa 480 [ translated by Richard Mather in The Age of Eternal Brilliance ]
165 Harmonizing with a Poem by General of the [Left Palace] Guard, Wang [Seng-ch’ien] on an Expository Lecture [on the Dharma]
The Wondrous Wheel has ceased its former turning,
And the Jeweled Trees have not yet started sounding.
But the Sweet Dew, for whomever preached,
Achieves the One, and points the way to bodhi-mind.
Dimly obscure, the Mystic Path appears remote;
Its lofty meanings, taken as a whole, become a forest.
But the Seven [Bodhi-] flowers screen sensations and their attributes;
The Eight Releases wash away [the scent of] perfumed collars.
166 The Four City Gates
The sixfold dragon team has bolted with the chariot [of the sun],
And the two rats [of night and day] have in their turn hastened its light.
In one’s declining years, how hard to care or help;
The sunset body – oh how easily it withers and decays!
167 The Fast of the Eight Prohibitions
Because of the Commandments I’ve grown weary of Samsara.
Yet, accustomed to the Hinderances, I follow dust and filth.
The Way of the Four Truths is hard to open;
Doorways to the Eightfold Path still tightly shut.
Attaining Truth was never easy to aspire to,
But only after losing the True Way does one then know the risks.
Misguided forays now have been repeated time and time again;
Sudden enlightenment itself is not without gradations.