The Icons of Western Art Communicating with the Third Millennium
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The Icons of Western Art Communicating with the Third Millennium

Jack Stewart (1926 – 2005)
The Icons of Western Art Communicating with the Third Millennium
2001
Mixed media
On loan from the Estate of Jack Stewart

Guide to the sources for the Icons by artist, title, date and location.
  1. Correggio, Jupiter and Io, 1532, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  2. Byzantine Ivory, ‘Adam’, 12th Century, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
  3. Unknown, Kouros Marble, 600 BC, Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
  4. Unknown, Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000–22,000 BC, Museum of Natural History, Vienna.
  5. Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1508–12, Sistine Ceiling, Vatican, Rome.
  6. Roman Marble Copy, Discobulous, after Bronze by Myron, 450 BC, Museo Delle Terme, Rome.
  7. Michelangelo, David, 1501–04, Academy, Florence.
  8. Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, 1545, National Gallery, London.
  9. Matisse, Odalisque with Raised Arms, 1923, National Gallery, Washington DC.
  10. Memling, Adam and Eve, (from Madonna triptych), 1485, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  11. Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500, Prado, Madrid.
  12. Courbet, Sleep, 1866, Petit Palais, Paris.
  13. Masaccio, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, c. 1427, Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
  14. Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1480, Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
  15. Unknown, Marble Idol from Amorgós, 2500–1100 BC, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
  16. Cezanne, Four Bethers, (detail of two), 1888–9, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
  17. Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500, Prado, Madrid.
  18. Ingres (and Pupils), The Source, 1858, Louvre, Paris.
  19. Titian, Adam end Eve, c. 1550, Prado, Madrid.
  20. Velázquez, The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), 1548–51, National Gallery, London.
  21. Tintoretto, Susanna (and the Elders), 1552–54, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  22. Rubens, Naiads from the Marie de’Medici series, 1821–25, Louvre, Paris.
  23. Rousseau, The Dream, 1910, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
  24. Bignoreill, Devil Adbucting a Maiden, fresco, 1504–08, Chapel of San Brizlo, Orvieto Cathedral.
  25. Unknown (Egyptian), Seated Scribe, Saqqara, c. 2400 BC, Louvre, Paris.
  26. Raphael, The Three Graces, 1500, Musée DeCondé, Chantilly, France.
  27. Renoir, The Grand Bathers (Figures Reversed), 1887, Philadelphia, Museum.
  28. Lachaise, Torso, c. 1920.
  29. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1883, Louvre, Paris. “Modifications by Stewart: The clothes on Manet’s males and the figure in the river were removed. The model on the left is a portrait of Regina Stewart. Jack is next to her. In the river, is the late Margot Stewart, and on the right is a dear friend of the late Aristodemos Kaldis.”
  30. Giorgione (Finished by Titian), Sleeping Venus, 1509–10, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.
  31. Goya, Maja Nude, 1800, Prado, Madrid.
  32. El Grecoo, Laocoon, c. 1810, National Gallery, Washington, DC.
  33. School of Fontainbleau, Gabrielle d’Estrées and the Duchesse de Villars, c. 1590, Louvre, Paris.
  34. Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
  35. Picasso, From Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, Museum of Modem Art, NYC.
  36. Cranach the Elder, Lucretia, Pinakotek, Munich.
  37. Rodin, The Thinker, 1879–89, Metropolitan Museum, NYC.

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