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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Sons, 1865–67, after a composition modeled in Rome c1860–61

“The story of the Pisan traitor Ugolino della Gherardesca, imprisoned with his sons and condemned to starvation, was told in Dante’s Inferno (canto 33). Carpeaux shows the anguished father resisting his children’s offer of their own bodies for his sustenance. The composition was cast in Bronze (1862-63, Musée d’Orsay, Paris). The owner of the Saint-Béat quarry commissioned this marble.”

Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1818.
Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection

Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto in Venice, 1757.
Private Collection

Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait with Isabella Brant, detail, 1609-1610.
Munich, Alte Pinakothek

From last night’s riding-high-on-speed episode of Mad Men.

“Beckham’s retiring!” exclaims my mother. “That doesn’t mean the modeling will stop, does it?”

Some 70s-80s Canto-Mando-Pop.

For those who are feeling nostalgic. Or in the mood for emotionally hardcore karaoke.

Suggestions are welcome.

La Jetée (1962)

Directed and Written by Chris Marker

Narrated by Jean Négroni

Starring Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux

Editing by Jean Ravel

Shots of 神女/The Goddess and 新女性/The New Women (1934) from 阮玲玉/Center Stage (1992)