The Witterings of the Sunburnt Mind

Joel Elias Shapiro (1941-2025) [USA] — ‘Untitled‘, 1992. Etching and aquatint in colors on wove paper (74.3 x 54.6 cm).

Gouache and acrylic on canvas

Encaustic and oil on wood, 67 x 71.5 cm.

Sol, Lead votive plaque, Roman, probably 3rd century CE

On the Balcony (1888) by Childe Hassam

Self portrait at 34

The Baleful Head, c. 1885 by Edward Burne-Jones

Peggy, ca 1932

The Ages of Life: Youth (1842) - Thomas Cole (1801–1848)

René Magritte

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is the self-proclaimed pioneer of abstract art, though this is still up for debate among art historians. The painting above is regarded as one of the earliest pieces of abstract art, drafted in 1910 and believed to have been edited in 1913.

-Perseus and Andromeda-

Les âmes au bord du Styx / Souls By the Styx (b.1871-1954) by Edgar Maxence

Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie has to take a step down, as he is outranked by his wife, Princess Maria Eufrosyne, the sister of the future Charles X Gustav. The difference between them is also underlined by the fact that the whole of her gown is of gold cloth, while her husband’s costume is black with gold trim. The plants allude to fertility and the little dog to fidelity. The artist Münnichhofen came from the Netherlands and entered De la Gardie’s service.

Medium: oil,canvas

from The British Museum

from Dumbarton Oaks