Tag Archives: art

Beneath the Monkey Bridge

The lurching lady lingering there by the hedgerow Flinging herself in bare armed beauty with The look and gesture of a raging bacchanal Precocious and promising pontificating unintelligibly Possessing the fascination of a chancred flower Cleo de Merode Princess Leda … Continue reading

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If I Can’t Have You

  If I Can’t Have You Attempt-to-locate In the American bush Over lunch at the Old Country Buffet Or among the road runners And the occasional lizard Outside the Pacific Northwest’s Premier cosmetology school Where it looks like someone Has … Continue reading

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Untitled (girl with desk)

Coreen Mary Spellman, 1945 Dallas Museum of Art

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Innocence and Experience 11

Walk in beauty But don’t undulate Oh noble presence Oh moment of distemper You shall see that it is What I say

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Vajravarahi

18th century Gilt Bronze, Semiprecious Stones, Traces Of Pigment The Dallas Museum of Art

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Gaze

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Clock called “The Chariot of Diana”

UNKNOWN GERMAN GOLDSMITH c. 1610 Ebony, gilt bronze, 31 x 41 x 17 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

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Standing Female Deity or Deity Impersonator

circa 600–900 Mexican, Veracruz state, El Zapotal style She holds a curved sacrificial knife in her upraised hand, and an incense bag in the shape of a skull hangs from her left hand. The serpents on her belt and headress … Continue reading

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Lucrezia de’ Medici

Attributed to Alessandro Allori and assistants. Lucrezia died of consumption in 1561 at the age of sixteen, a year after this portrait was painted. NCMA

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Vamp

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