3 de Outubro

"Some books are to be tasted,

others to be swallowed,

and some few to be chewed

and digested"

Francis Bacon

The Open Missal, c. 1570

Ludger tom Ring the Younger

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie

Purchased by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III (Blanchette Hooker, Class of 1931) Fund

8 de Junho

"If a man be gracious

and courteous to strangers,

it shows he is a citizen

of the world"

Francis Bacon

Allegory, 1531

Albrecht Altdorfer

Gemaldegalerie, Berlin

30 de Janeiro

"The root of all superstition is that
men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses"

Francis Bacon

Witchcraft or An Allegory on the Choice of Hercules, c. 1535

Dosso Dossi

Uffizi Gallery, Florence