National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
photo: David Castenson
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WEEPING ANGEL PINK-WINGED URN
IN THE LIGHT URNS | 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 11 3/4″
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The Angel of Grief or the Weeping Angel
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William Wetmore Story (1819-1895)
"Infant Bacchus on a Panther" (1863)
Marble
Located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt by Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)
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Lyrics - King (2022), Florence + The Machine // Sculpture - Medea (1868), William Wetmore Story
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MWW Artwork of the Day (5/25/22)
William Wetmore Story (American, 1819–1895)
Cleopatra (1858/1869)
Marble sculpture, 141 x 84.5 x 130.8 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of J.T. Johnston)
William Wetmore Story was a neoclassical sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor. Neoclassical sculptors often drew upon mythology, history, the Bible, and literature for their subject matter. "Cleopatra" exemplifies Story’s penchant for depicting famous—or infamous—personalities from history as they contemplate past deeds or forthcoming actions of cataclysmic significance. Here, Cleopatra (69–30 B.C.), the last Macedonian ruler of Egypt, meditates suicide; the asp curled around her left arm predicts her death from its venomous bite. Story rendered his figures on a monumental scale and paid meticulous attention to archaeological exactitude in their props and costumes. Cleopatra wears the "nemes," or royal headcloth, topped with the "uraeus," or cobra headdress.
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“From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.” - Psalm 22
1. Velázquez, Diego. Christ Crucified. 1632, Museo Del Prado, Madrid.
2. Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco. Apparition of Christ to the Virgin. 1628 - 1630, Civic Art Gallery, Cento.
3. Sassoferrato, Giovanni Battista Salvi. Madonna and Child. 1625 - 1700, Louvre Museum, Paris.
4. Story, William Wetmore. The Angel of Grief Weeping Over the Dismantled Altar of Life. 1894, Rome.
5. Bloch, Carl Heinrich. The Crucifixion. 1870, Museum of National History, Copenhagen.
6. “Mac Finds His Pride.” It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, season 13, episode 10, FX Network, 7 Nov. 2018. Writ. Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day. Dir. Todd Bierman.
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STORY, William Wetmore
Libyan Sibyl
1860
Marble, height 135 x 71 x 116 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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These two busts of Medea and Penelope are both *chef’s kiss* perfection. The emotion portrayed is amazing!
Medea by William Wetmore Story (1819-1895)
Penelope by Leonidas Drosis (1836-1882)
(Medea is on the left Penelope is on the right)
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by the way this is terrible picture quality but this is what I ended up doing with my wall last week. I still have to stick everything down more securely and I might make a few adjustments but I'm pretty satisfied.
I even made a shitty gallery guide:
1. Pictures of me with the 4 core members of Darlingside
2. Picture of me with Aaron Tveit
3.-4. Carousel animal ornaments from the Smithsonian
5.-9. Photo collages with my college friends
10.-12. Drawings of Les Amis de l'ABC as pigeons by me
13. Portrait of Victor Hugo by Alphonse Legros (Harvard Art Museums)
14.-15. Winnie-the-Pooh pencil drawings by E.H. Shepard (Victoria & Albert Museum)
16. Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, photo by Clements & Howcroft
17. Etching from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (British Library)
18. Cantica de Medicina by Avicenna (Boston Medical Library/Center for the History of Medicine)
19. Vanitas Still Life by Herman Henstenburgh (Morgan Library & Museum)
20. Mystique by Amy Brown
21. Art by Ulla Thynell
22. Medea by William Wetmore Story (MFA Boston)
23. Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water by JMW Turner (Clark Art Institute/MFA Boston)
24. Twilight by George Inness (Williams College Museum of Art)
25. Path to Shambhala by Nicholas Roerich (Nicholas Roerich Museum)
26. Star of the Hero by Nicholas Roerich
27. Palden Lhamo by Nicholas Roerich
28. First Touch (redraw of a still from Pride and Prejudice (2005)) by Kalogh on redbubble
29.-43. Art by @ullathynell (bought from artist's website, but she also has society6)
44. A Thousand Cranes (left screen) by Kayama Matazo (National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo)
45. Art of northern flicker by Sarah Martinez
46. Bird art by me
47. Cover design for Bury the Lede by Dora Lariat by me
48. "ex libris" book plates from my college English department
49. Ship with seven men, net and gull by Alfred Wallis (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge)
50. Farewell by @riisinaakka-draws
51. Piece of eight necklace
52. "Know no shame" inscription from Black Sails
53. Book of adventures by dandingeroz on redbubble
54. Farewell and Good Riddance to Skeleton Island by riisinaakka
55. The Walrus at Night by riisinaakka
56. The map from Treasure Island
57. Hush by @finngualart (SaskiaDeKorte)
58. Returned to the Sea by SaskiaDeKorte
59. Flint coloring page by SaskiaDeKorte, colored by me
60. Madi by riisinaakka
61. Longing by riisinaakka
62. Watercolour raven by SaskiaDeKorte
:)
And (doll tw) here's a "before" shot from a while back (I'd changed the curtain and taken down the mirror in between)
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A drawing of queen Visenya
Based on the statue Medea sculpted by William Wetmore Story carved in 1868.
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