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The Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg

The Grave-Digger’s Death by Carlos Schwabe

The Cup of Death by Elihu Vedder

Amor med sommerfuglen by Bertel Thorvaldsen

Genius of Fame by Annibale Carracci

Allegory of Victory by Louis Le Nain

Love in the Autumn by Solomon Simeon

Stuotengarten by Alexander Binder

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Léon Bonnat

The Guardian Angel by Pietro da Cortona

Scopophilia by Nan Goldin

“Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin’s career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means “the love of looking,” reflects on Goldin’s intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given to the artist to photograph freely throughout the Louvre Museum. Of this project, Goldin explains, “Desire awoken by images is the project’s true starting point. It is about the idea of taking a picture of a sculpture or a painting in an attempt to bring it to life.’”

Ottobeuren Basilica Altar of the Guardian Angel

Sacred and Profane Love by Giovanni Baglione 1602 (also known as Heavenly Love and Earthly Love)

Baglione painted this canvas, alongside of another version now in Berlin, for the Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani. The two works follow on the heels of and make reference to Caravaggio’s Love Victorious, painted in 1601 for the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani.
The canvas dates to just before the famous court trial that marked Baglione’s definitive split with the circle of his contemporary, Caravaggio: it is thus a document of the phase of Baglione’s career in which he most closely approximated Caravaggio’s methods. Baglione was originally trained as a painter in the late mannerist style, and was active in major papal commissions at the end of the sixteenth century. He was the first painter to attach himself to the new naturalistic vision of Caravaggio, a style that had its official debut in that painter’s work at San Luigi dei Francesi in the Jubilee Year of 1600. While there is no doubt that Baglione modelled the National Gallery picture on Caravaggio’s Love Victorious, the artist took a completely new point of view. Uniting the figures to the dark background against which they stand out, he uses an intense and direct spotlighting that creates strong chiaroscuro contrasts. The legacy of late mannerism matrix is evident in both the compositions of the individual figures, above all the attenuated proportions of Sacred Love, and in the rich, complex attire, which departs from Caravaggesque prototypes.
Derived from the Psychomachia of Prudentius, the moralizing theme of combat between the vices and the virtues was interpreted by Virgil in Omnia vincit Amor. Later codified by Petrarch, the theme enjoyed a new popularity in the early seventeenth century. The face of the figure of the devil at the left has been identified as a portrait of Caravaggio. This canvas includes a satirical condemnation of both Caravaggio’s art and his moral scruples, making what is tantamount to a visual charge of sodomy. Divine Love interrupts a tryst between Cupid and the Devil, who turns toward the viewer in anguished surprise revealing Caravaggio’s likeness.