Gustav Klimt, Judith II (1909)

isla mujeres- shell house

Leonora Carrington

Witches’ Flight - art by Francisco Goya (1798)

Architectural decay portrayed in art pieces

‘Roman Ruins’ by Hubert Robert, 1760

‘Capriccio of Classical Ruins’ by Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1725 and 1730

‘Landscape with Classical Ruins and Figures’ by Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, 1725-1730

‘Ruins in Baalbek’ bu Jules Louis Coignet, 1846

‘Gothic Church Ruin’ by Carl Blechen, 1829-1831

‘The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel’ by Louis Daguerre, 1824

‘Christ and Adulteress’ by Ascanio Luciano, 1669

‘Detail of View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum’ by Canaletto, 1742-1745

‘Ruins of the Palace’ by Ramon Martí Alsina, 1859

Looking In

by Leonora Carrington

Mellowed and softened as with sunset glow,

A golden day’s decline …

Xochipala Female Figurine

Guerrero, Xalitla, Mexico

earthenware with pigment

9¾” high

c.1500-500 BCE  

fragments of humanity, pt. 2

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Harry Fonseca — In the Silence of Dusk They Began to Shed Their Skin  (mixed media on canvas, 1995)