- - Comparison is a rational exercise of analysts and politicians. It is necessary for science, important for business, and desirable for...

- - Saint Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo Mary has just now seen Christ, and the artist paints radiance refle...

- - Vulnerability The world is not delicate on the whole. I feel it here in my sternum, my ribs, lying on my back under you, stars dis...

- - Dorothea and Francesca, by Cecilia Beaux, 1898 Dancers inspired by the painting "Dorothea and Francesca" by Cecilia Beaux I...

- - The Girl by the Window, 1893 by Edvard Munch Art Institute of Chicago The Girl by the Window Afraid, gulping bitterness, she padded ...

- - Still Life: Corner of a Table, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1873 Art Institute of Chicago The following poem is not a judgment on this gor...

 - - The Song of the Lark, by Jules Adolphe Breton The Song of the Lark a meditation on the painting by Jules Adolphe Breton At the bot...