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A Visual Catalogue

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Witches’ Tree (c. 1882-98) by Edward Burne-Jones

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The Reverse Side of a Gold Medallion Depicting King Henri IV of France as Mars, His Queen Consort, Marie de Medici, as Pallas Athena, and Their Son, the Future King Louis XIII, in Between Them | Guillaume Dupré | c. 1603

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Pallas Athena and the Herdsman’s Dogs (1876) by Briton Rivière

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“For this portrait, [Gustav] Klimt employed soft, sinuous strokes of paint to present Serena as an apparition in white. ‘An upright flower, long-stemmed . . . Like a black tulip,’ enthused one critic when the painting was exhibited in 1901 at the Vienna Secession, a group founded by Klimt and other artists with the aim of putting the city at the forefront of the international art world.”

— Serena Pulitzer Lederer (c. 1899) by Gustav Klimt and the Above Description Retrieved from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“In alchemy, the swan represents the union of opposites necessary for the creation of what is known as the philosopher's stone, a substance believed to be capable of turning base metals into gold. Here, [Hilma] af Klint's black-and-white palette underscores the dualities of light and dark, male and female, life and death.”

— The Swan, No. 1, by Hilma af Klint (c. 1915) and the Above Transcript Retrieved from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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HENRY: “You think I’d ever give him up? When I’ve mothered him and fathered him and babied him? He’s all I’ve got. How often do people have to hear it? Every supper? Should we start the soup with who we love and who we don’t?” ALAIS: “I think you like it, passing me from hand to hand. What am I to you, a collection plate? Or am I all you’ve got, like John?” HENRY: (He gets up, starts wandering about the room. The Christmas decorating and tree trimming have been completed. Assorted packages are arranged under the tree. A merry fire burns in the fireplace. It couldn’t be more Christmas Eve.) “I’ve got to get the Aquitaine for John.” ALAIS: “I talk people, and you answer back in provinces.”

— The Lion in Winter (1968)

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17th-Century Portrait Miniatures of the Stuart Queen Consorts:

(1) Anne of Denmark (c. 1611-12) by Isaac Oliver

(2) Henrietta Maria of France (c. 1635) by David des Granges

(3) Catherine of Braganza (c. 1660-61) by David des Granges

(4) Mary of Modena (c. 1685) by Susannah-Penelope Rosse

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View on the Catskill—Early Autumn (c. 1836-37) by Thomas Cole