Mystic Scene (1895) By Henri Martin

Oedipus and Sphynx, Gustave Moreau, 1864, Oil on Canvas, part of the MET permanent collection and on view in gallery 800

Peter Falk / Columbo

Art by Peter Falk

Ian Felice (American, 1982) - Last Dance (2021)

Raoul Auger (1904–1991) - “Femmes damnées (à la pale clarté)”

vignette from Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Pièces condamnées’, Éditions Henrys Paris, 1949

Fiona Finnegan Sleep and its Derangements, 2022 Oil on linen on wood.

Ramón del Valle-Inclán, La laámpara maravillosa, ejercicios espiritualis, 1916

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Tarot, Major Arcana.

Frederick Sandys

Madonna Pietra Degli Scrovigni

Artist: Marie Spartali Stillman (British, 1844–1927)

Date: 1884

Medium; Paper; watercolour; gouache

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

Madonna Pietra Degli Scrovigni (My Lady Stone) is a character from a poem by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The lady is described as beautiful and inspiring great passion, but 'utterly frozen… no more moved than is the stone'. The poem plays off the interaction of winter and summer, dark and light, yellow and green, themes which Stillman explores in this watercolour. She uses imagery of dead leaves, blackthorn and hellebore to symbolize coldness and winter, and the model gazes out at the viewer steadily and calmly.

Sandro Botticelli