* Andre Kertesz
* Boy Holding the Puppy (1928)
* Extracts from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: “He is looking at nothing; he retains within himself his love and his fear: that is the Look.”
* Lavinia Fontana
* Newborn Baby in a Crib (c. 1583)
Nature is a temple where living columns
Let slip from time to time uncertain words;
Man finds his way through forests of symbols
Which regard him with familiar gazes.
—Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal
If Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
—John Ruskin, Modern Painters
* Rembrandt (1606-69)
* The Philosopher in Meditation (1632)
* Medium: oil on panel
* Location: Louvre
* Nicolas Poussin
* Spring (The Earthly Paradise) (1664)
* Medium: oil on canvas
* Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
* Henri Cartier-Bresson
* France. Paris. Courreges. Spring-Summer (1969)
* Read more: Peter Schjeldahl enthuses over the photographer’s oeuvre
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Caricature Head Study of an Old Man (c.1500-05)
…no artist lives and loves, that longs not
Once, and only once, and for one only,
(Ah, the prize!) to find his love a language
Fit and fair and simple and sufficient.
—Robert Browning draws a parallel of Raphael and La Fornarina with Dante and Beatrice in “One Word More”
