Dionysiac initiation, c. 70 B.C.E
Jean-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814
Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Gineva de' Benci, 1474
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533
Robert Campin, Portrait of Robert de Masmines, 1425
Rogier Van Der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, 1460
Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Young Man, 1475
Luca Signorelli, Portrait of an Elderly Man, 1492
Giovanni Bellini, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredon, 1501
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Johannes Cuspinian and His First Wife, Anna Putsch, 1503
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of the Merchant Georg Gisze, 1532
Raphael, Portrait of Maddalena Doni, 1506
Raphael, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1520
Parmigianino, Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1523
Jacopo Da Pontormo, Portrait of Halberdier, 1529
Guiseppe Arcimboldo, Emperor Rudolf 2nd as Vertumnus, 1591
Domenichino, Portrait of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi, 1615
Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, The Company of Frans Banning Cocq, 1642
Anthony Van Dyck, Self-Portrait with Sunflower, 1632
Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte Crossing the Great Saint Bernhard Pass, 1801
Victor Emil Janssen, Self-Portrait at the Easel, 1830
Hans Von Marees and Arnold Bocklin (self-portraits, 1870)
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905
Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (the green line), 1905
Oskar Kokoschka, Portrait of Adolf Loos, 1909
Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926
Chuck Close, Phil, 1969
Ford Max Brown, The Last of England, 1855
Henry Wallis, The stonebreaker, 1857
Thomas Bush Kennington, Homeless, 1890
Alfred Ducote, Emigration, or Flight of fair game, 1832
Francis Hustwick, The Great Britain, 1853
Thomas Robertson, Red Jacket, Lightning and James, 1856
Felix Vallotton, The rape of Europa, 1908
Raphael Delorme, Girl and Pigeons, 1925
Tamara de Lempicka, Les Deux Amies, 1923
Jean Dupas, The Judgement of Paris, 1923
Jean Dupas, Woman with Ship Hat, 1928
Raphael Delorme, Baroque Fantasy, 1930
Balthus, The Window, 1933
Balthus, Portrait of Madame Peirre Loeb, 1934
William Roberts, Red Turban, 1921
Edward Reginald Frampton, Landscape
Joseph Southall, Brigs at Fowey, 1917
One afternoon I found myself in the library, I plucked out several heavy books and sat between the isles immersing myself in the paintings and their stories. I've gathered the ones that caught me the most and shared them with you here.