Comparative Paintings and Sculpture

Giovanni di Paolo (Siena, active ca. 1420–82)
Christ as the Man of Sorrows with Two Angels
Mid-fifteenth century
Gold ground and tempera on panel, in an engaged frame
15 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (38.4 x 19.7 cm)

 

All images by Michael Bodycomb

Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina 1899–1968 Varese, Italy)
Crocifisso (Christ on the Cross)
1950–52
Glazed terracotta
19 5/8 x 12 3/8 x 5 in. (49.8 x 31.4 x 12.7 cm)
© Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan

Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Germany 1577–1640 Antwerp)
Assumption of the Virgin
Ca. 1620
Oil on panel
17 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (44.5 x 29.2 cm)

Edward Ruscha (Omaha, Nebraska b. 1937)
Seventeenth Century
1988
Acrylic on canvas
56 x 134 in. (142.2 x 340.4 cm)
© Ed Ruscha

Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled
“Chalkboard” series
1970 
Oil paint and oil stick on canvas
61 1/8 x 74 3/4 x 2 in. (155.3 x 189.9 x 5.1 cm)
© Cy Twombly Foundation

Cy Twombly (Lexington, Virginia 1928–2011 Rome)
Untitled
1959
Oil paint, wax crayon, and lead pencil on canvas
38 3/8 x 55 3/4 in. (97.5 x 141.6 cm)
© Cy Twombly Foundation