Sunday, March 2, 2025

Hero

I stand with Zelensky and Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky by Daniel Berehulak / The New York Times

BEAUTY: Painting--Men of Antiquity, Part Fifteen

In a continuing series (previous entries seen here), here are, yet again, a lot of handsome-ass men from long ago...


Top to bottom: Eliseu Visconti--Self-Portrait (1898); Glyn Warren Philpot, British 1884-1937--Man in a Flying Jacket, 1916; Jacek Malczewski--Portrait of Michala Gorstkina Wywiorski, painted 1892; Jean-Léon Gérôme--Le Comte de la Rochefoucauld et duc de Doudeauville; Lawrence Alma-Tadema--Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow; Leo Gestel--self portrait; Luigi Serena--Autoritratto, 1876; McClelland Barclay--LTJG R.F. Lynch, Jr., 1943; Merry-Joseph Blondel--Portrait of Maréchal de Bourdillon