Symbolic and Spiritual Themes in Art

Artworks exploring profound themes of life, death, and spirituality through symbolic representations and emotional figures.

Maid with burning candle, Pierre Louis Dubourcq, 1839 print Netherlands paper. etching / drypoint maid ~ house personnel. chandelier, candelabrum (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle)

Man embraced and kissed by a death angel floating above a body wrapped in sheet, Félicien Rops, 1893 print Paris paper drypoint (lovers) kissing each other. angel guiding a soul to heaven, 'psychopompos'. shroud. the corpse

Symbolic composition with masks; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932);

Maid with burning candle, Pierre Louis Dubourcq, 1839 print Netherlands paper. etching / drypoint maid ~ house personnel. chandelier, candelabrum (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle)

Gopsmor Cottage 1917 Anders Zorn Swedish. Gopsmor Cottage. Anders Zorn (Swedish, Mora 1860-1920 Mora). 1917. Etching; third state of three. Prints

Depicts a girl performing in front of mirrors, created using the Caltnadel technique by Max Beckmann in 1915.

The Countess Combing Her Hair (Esmérée) or Dancing Music (Esmérée). Artist: Émile Bernard (French, Lille 1868-1941 Paris). Dimensions: Plate: 13 1/16 × 7 15/16 in. (33.2 × 20.2 cm)Sheet: 16 1/8 × 12 13/16 in. (41 × 32.5 cm). Date: 1892.Plate 8 of 8 from the series 'Les Cantilènes', the title of a group of poems by Jean Moréas. This plate illustrates the lines in Moréas' poem 'La comptesse se peigne (Esmérée)' in the chapter 'Airs et Récits'. The poem tells of a girl from Klephte, Turkery. Her silken hair, mature eyes and 'burnished silver breasts' relecting the sun were admired by a young man, portrayed by Bernard on the right of the composition : 'C'est la belle aux yeux, C'est la belle aux yeux de mûre, C'est la belle aux yeux de mûre; La belle aux cheveux, La belle aux cheveux de mûre, Aux cheveux soyeux'. In the following poem 'Le Ruffian', Moréan describes a handsome, well-dressed cavalier who was admired by the woman he met: 'Ainsi, beau comme un dieu, brave comme sa dague'.In 18

Mule Driver. Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó; Spanish, 1838-1874. Date: 1858-1874. Dimensions: 105 x 70 mm (plate). Etching on paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Jo's Bent Head. James McNeill Whistler; American, 1834-1903. Date: 1861. Dimensions: 225 x 150 mm (plate); 302 x 219 mm (sheet). Drypoint in black ink on ivory laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

First a pool of water, then a prostitute, the corner of a temple, a soldier's face, a chariot with two rearing white horses, plate 1 from The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1st series) Made 1888 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise, plate 8 of 10 Made 1888 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

Pinocchio hung, 1979 print Hung man with long nose and pointed hat, around grieving faces with long noses and pointed hats. paper. printing ink etching

Portrait of Rodin with a sculpture, Eugène career, 1900 print. poster paper historical persons

And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise, plate 8 of 10. Odilon Redon; French, 1840-1916. Date: 1888. Dimensions: 314 × 226 mm (image/chine); 433 × 314 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Woman with linen hat on; Flemish Mother.

The Shulamite Made 1897 France. Lithograph printed in blue and yellow-orange on heavy light gray chine . Odilon Redon

First Little Night Piece 1898 France. Aquatint from a zinc plate in black on ivory wove paper . Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen

Rodin Sculpting 1900 France. Lithograph from two stones, with scraping on stone, on tan wove paper, lined with linen . Eugène Carrière

The New Ballad Made 1903 Sweden. Etching on red-brown paper . Anders Zorn

Pres de l'enfant. Jasiński, Feliks Stanisław (1862-1901), graphic artist, Cieślewska, Zofia (fl. ca 1920-), printer of graphic prints

Standing bearer with hat and sword, Henri de Groux, c. 1893 print paper standard-bearer, flag-bearer. adult man. head-gear. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Private Collection Graphic arts 38x28,4 Mythology, Allegory and Literature Illustration for the poem The Dead Souls by N. Gogol

Copper engraving by Luigi Calamatta in 1843 depicting Françoise de Rimini, illustrating a narrative scene with detailed figures and architectural elements.

Studies of the hat of a woman, Theo Nieuwenhuis, 1876 - 1951 drawing paper. chalk head-gear: toque (+ women's clothes)

Menkop, Cornelis Lieste (attributed to), after Hendrica Roelofsz, 1849 print paper historical persons (+ head (and shoulders) (portrait)). head (human)

The blind singer (El cantor ciego). Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Dimensions: Plate: 7 1/2 x 4 13/16 in. (19 x 12.2 cm)Sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 5/16 in. (26.4 x 18.5 cm). Date: 1824-28. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Newborn in a Bonnet (Le nouveau-né au bonnet, 1890. Eugène Carrière (French, 1849-1906). Lithograph; sheet: 34.9 x 26.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); image: 25.5 x 19.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 9/16 in.).

Study for figure of 2 pm in The Hours” ceiling at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Study. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; French, 1864-1901. Date: 1895. Dimensions: 767 × 417 mm. Brush and black ink, with black Conté crayon, heightened with touches of white gouache, on tan tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Linger, longer, loo, plate seven from Yvette Guilbert. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901); printed by Westminster Press (English, 20th century); published by the Ernest Brown & Phillips (English, 20th century). Date: 1898. Dimensions: 298 × 243 mm (image); 350 × 268 mm (primary support); 497 × 371 mm (secondary support). Lithograph (crayon) in violet or purple on cream wove paper hinged at top corners to gray-brown wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Frontispiece to A Gustave Flaubert (To Gustave Flaubert) Made 1889 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

Self-Portrait, Smiling. Marc Chagall; French, born Belarus, 1887-1985. Date: 1924-1925. Dimensions: 276 × 218 mm (image/plate); 558 × 380 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on white laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Reading woman. .

Ia orana Maria (Hail Mary). Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1894-1895. Dimensions: 380 × 282 mm. Transfer zincograph on coarse-grained transfer paper, in dark-blue ink on thin ivory wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum). Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Robed figure, praying: study for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston PublicLibrary. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

A 1915 black chalk drawing by Egon Schiele showing Edith Schiele with her nephew on Japanese paper.

Old Beggar Woman With a Gourd, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1629 print paper etching

Madonna (A Mother) Made 1900 Sweden. Etching on brown wove paper . Anders Zorn

Mixed media drawing by Egon Schiele from 1911 titled 'Jealousy', depicting two lovers on brown wrapping paper using pencil, watercolor, cover colors, and deck white.

The Hands 1895 Norway. Lithograph in black on cream card . Edvard Munch

Linger, longer, loo, plate seven from Yvette Guilbert Original 1898 France. Lithograph (crayon) in violet or purple on cream wove paper hinged at top corners to gray-brown wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

'Gargamelle' lying on bed. Draughtsman: Henk Henriët. Dating: 1939. Measurements: h 180 mm; w 240 mm; h 303 mm; w 295 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Roméo et Juliette. Confidence à la nuit , Composers, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints

Different Peoples Inhabit the Countries of the Ocean, plate 23 of 24 Made 1896 France. Lithograph in black with retouching in India ink on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

sin titulo, Gerard Matas, oleo sobre tela, Mallorca, balearic islands, Spain.

Laughing model I (soft ground etching) , Artists' models, Smiling

Brandès and le Bargy, in Les Cabotins 1894 France. Color lithograph on cream wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Two playing boys, George Hendrik Breitner, 1867 - 1923 drawing Netherlands paper. chalk children's games and plays

Poorstone! / Poor street!, Wyd. Édouard Kleinmann, print. Jole he. To the Music Publishing House Georges Ondet, to the repertoire of Eugénie Buffet Toulouse Hautrec, Henri the (186401m), cliny, utter, £ £ .. .. 19., JOLY

Without title double portrait, man and woman, Karl Wiener -, artist

Published in L'Estampe Originale, Album IV, 1893: Standard Bearer, 1893. Henri de Groux (Belgian, 1867-1930), Andre Marty (French, b. 1857). Lithograph; sheet: 59.7 x 42.3 cm (23 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.); image: 27.6 x 21.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.).

The Caress II. Leon Golub; American, 1922-2004. Date: 1949. Dimensions: 499 x 349 mm (plate); 517 x 365 mm (sheet). Color etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Portrait of actress Marcelle Lender bending for the public; Lender Saluant. Portrait of actress Marcelle Lender while she bends to the public. To the costume that it bears, can be distracted that in its role in the comic opera Chilpéric, a performance in the Thétre des Variétés.

Sketch by Stefano della Bella showing a rider on the right wearing a porridge creeper hat, holding a weapon in the right hand, in pen and ink.

Crawling Woman, plate five from Day and Dream. Max Beckmann; German, 1884-1950. Date: 1946. Dimensions: 400 x 300 mm. Lithograph on cream wove paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

The Painter and His Model. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973); printed by Desjobert; published by Edition des chroniques du jour. Date: 1929-1930. Dimensions: 230 x 290 mm (image/primary support); 330 x 379 mm (secondary support). Lithograph on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé). Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The idealistic movement in painting; Le Mouvement Idéaliste and Peinture.a Lizardous Beast With a Human Face Sitting On The Head Of A Man, His Tail Around The Neck.

La mise au sépulcre. Jasiński, Feliks Stanisław (1862-1901), graphic artist, Mantegna, Andrea (ca 1431-1506), painter, Porcabeuf, Alfred (1867-ca 1946), printer of graphic prints

The embrace. .

Bust. Jacques Gaston Duchamp Villon; French, 1875-1963. Date: 1938. Dimensions: 159 × 103 mm (plate); 277 × 187 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Tea.. Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926. 1890. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Galahad at Castle, study for The Quest of the Holy Grail (series of fifteen paintings for the Boston Public Library, completed in1901). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Bullfight. Wounded Female Bullfighter III, from the Suite Vollard. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973); printed by Roger Lacourière (French, 1892-1966); published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939). Date: 1933. Dimensions: 197 x 275 mm (image/plate); 310 x 382 mm (sheet). Drypoint and etching with engraving on copper in black on off-white laid paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Portret van Armand Guillaumin, Paul Cézanne, 1873 print Sitting man with hat, with his arms over each other and his right leg stretched. In the background a person hangs on a gallows. paper etching historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of artist. instruments of torture, execution or punishment: gallows

Childe Hassam, Mrs Hassam Knitting (large), 1918 Mrs. Hassam Knitting (large)

Sloth. Paul Cadmus; American, 1904-1999. Date: 1946. Dimensions: 696 x 438 mm. Graphite, heightened with white gouache, on tan wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Portrait of Stanis Awa Kubicki; Hulewicz, Jerzy (1886-1941); 1918 (1918-00-00-1918-00-00);Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, Witke-Jeżewski

Figure study for King Arthurs Round Table, from The Quest of the Holy Grail (a series of 15 paintings for the Boston Public Library, completed in 1901). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Plate Four, from The Dartmouth Portraits. Jim Dine (American, born 1935); printed by Alan Uglow and Winston Roeth; published by Petersburg Press. Date: 1975. Dimensions: 197 x 150 mm (image/plate); 664 x 515 mm (sheet). Drypoint, sanded and reworked with hard ground and soft ground etching and aquatint, on ivory laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Study magazine with sketch of a woman. .

Head of a woman, Lodewijk Schelfhout, 1913 print Netherlands paper drypoint head (human) - AA - female human figure

Tahitian Girl in a Pink Pareu. Paul Gauguin; French, 1848-1903. Date: 1894. Dimensions: 299 × 198 mm. Watercolor monotype from a paper matrix on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Post Rally. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008); published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1965. Dimensions: 1090 x 761 mm (image); 1162 x 795 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black from two stones on white wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Lazio Roma Velletri Museo Civico di Velletri82. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Marble tondo of the depositon, early christian sarcophagus. Antiquities: Roman;statue of Athena, male and female sculpture fragments- heads, torsos, marble cinerary urn; cippi with inscriptions inscriptions, altars, sarcofagi, sarcofagus with scenes of the feats of Herakles. Etruscan; votive objects, heads, legs feet, eyes, uterus, intestine , animals; bronze objects Architectural sculpture and fragments; relief of procession pottery fragments, lamps; brickstamps. Object Notes: The Museo Civico is housed in the Palazzo Comunale. There are two Hutzel photo campaign notes, one undated and the other November 9, 1985. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects

Singer at a Café-Concert 1876-1877 France. Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper . Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A girl with large eyes ,. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs

(UN CUISINIER.). Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866

Roche, Pierre (n.1855-D.1922-01-18), La Biquette (main title), 1921. Gypsography, brown draw .. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris.

The Skiapods The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness! , plate 6 of 6 Made 1889 France. Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper . Odilon Redon

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Robed figure, praying: study for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston PublicLibrary, Black chalk, 51 × 32.4 cm (20 1/16 × 12 3/4in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Plate Seven from A Passion in the Desert. Willi Geiger; German, 1878-1971. Date: 1924. Dimensions: 150 × 97 mm (plate); 266 × 180 mm (sheet). Etching on cream wove paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Postcard of Wiener Werkstätte No, Portrait of women, Egon Schiele -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

The Mourning Maria, Emil Orlik, 1918 print paper etching / drypoint 'Mater Dolorosa' - FF - 'Mater Dolorosa', head or bust

Pablo Picasso / 'Women in their toilette II', 1905, Aquatint, etching and drypoint, 12 x 8.9 cm.

Beduinen-Brust; Orlik, Emil (1870-1932); 1912 (p Yta); 1913 (edition) (1912-00-00-1912-00-00);Arabs, Bedouini, Orient, Partage Plus, Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, modernism (style), bans, bans, men

Hiver lèpre de la terre (Winter, Earths Leper), from Miserere. Artist: Georges Rouault, French, 1871-1958

Head of a Clown. Georges Aubert (French, 1886-1961); after Georges Rouault (French, 1871-1958). Date: 1932. Dimensions: 195 × 203 mm (image/block); 306 × 326 mm (sheet). Wood engraving in black on cream wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Father and Child, 1968 print paper

Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the Smile of Reims), fromMiserere. Artist: Georges Rouault, French, 1871-1958

Vehiered woman in Train Coupé, Marinus van der Maarel, 1867 - 1921 print paper etching passenger carriage. veil. adult woman

In the Ashes, 1887. Albert Besnard (French, 1849-1934). Etching, drypoint and roulette; sheet: 44.9 x 32.7 cm (17 11/16 x 12 7/8 in.); plate: 43.1 x 31.1 cm (16 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.).

Experience Greek in the Himation unknown

U Miech; Hulewicz, Jerzy (1886-1941); 1934 (1934-00-00-1934-00-00);

The Spitfire Published 1908 France. Wood engraving in black on cream laid Japanese paper . Louis Auguste Lepère

Masked woman, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, c. 1899 print paper mask. adult woman

Christ and the Women Sinners, plate thirteen from A Life. Max Klinger (German, 1857-1920); printed by Otto Felsing (German, 19th century). Date: 1884. Dimensions: 322 x 483 mm (image); 372 x 513 mm (plate, approx.); 360 x 502 mm (primary support); 788 x 575 mm (secondary support, approx.). Etching and aquatint on ivory China paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sterke Man, Yo Sugano, 1937 - 1969 print Japan paper etching the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Private Collection Graphic arts 28,4x38 Mythology, Allegory and Literature Illustration for the poem The Dead Souls by N. Gogol

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