Eight Miniatures from Poet & Patron

Dale Wittig 
April 2017 
Harlem & Lower East Side NYC 
acrylic & pencil on gessoed card 
exhibited at 
Sebastian Brecht OCD Chocolate 
63 E4th St

 

1.Don Juan  

 

2.Ulli Rimkus  

 

3.Faith Wittig  

 

4.Juan Carlos Lamouth  

 

5.Susie Dennison  

 

6.Elizabeth Tudor  

 

7.Susie Dennison  

 

8.Courtney Love

Fayum Mummy Portraits & Funerary Shroud Portrait

Fayum Mummy Portraits
encaustic (beeswax & pigment) on wood panel 
Funerary Shroud Portrait 
tempera on linen 
Fayum & Antinoopolis Egypt 
circa AD 50 - 300

The largest surviving group of classical era panel paintings come from the Greek colonies of Egypt from the Roman era, the so called Fayum Portraits.  The painters employed both the hot and cold methods of encaustic painting, where beeswax, either molten or emulsified, is used as the primary binder for the pigment.  The paintings above all belong to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum on 5th Avenue in NYC.  The last one down is a life size portrait painted in tempera on linen.

Classical Roman Fresco Wall Murals

from 
Villa of P Fannius Synistor  at Boscoreale 
& Imperial Villa  at Boscotrecase
Pompeii ca. 50–40 BC
Metropolitan Museum 5th Avenue
Manhattan 
 

1.seated woman playing a kithara 
  

2.man and woman seated side by side

3.woman holding a shield 

4.covered vase on pedestal 
   

5.sacrificial bull’s head (boukranion) with garland, wicker basket (cista mystica) and satyr mask

6.Perseus and Andromeda 

7.Polyphemus and Galatea

Stage set AMG

Theatrical Backdrops for Body Builders 
photographed by Robert Mizer 
for Athletic Model Guild
Pico Union Los Angeles 
circa 1960

1 - 6 John Manning & James Selig
  

7 Jim Rees
  

8 Jim Reno
  

9 Jim Rees
  

10 Johnny Yuma & Link Ramon

11 Johnny Yuma, Link Ramon & Jim Reno
 

Andrei Rublev

Frescoes & Icons
circa 1363 - 29 January 1427
Vladimir & Moscow, Russia

 

1 & 2 Image of God 

 

3 Ascension of Jesus  

 

4 Annunciation 

 

5 Trinity 

 

6 Theotokos of Vladimir 

 

7 Ascension of Jesus

 

8 Deposition of Jesus 

 

9 Annunciation 

 

10 Savior in Glory.

Ricardo Chalate: Entrenador

(con Xavier Gomez y solo) 
Canción 10 y anomio
Ciudad de México 2010 - 2016

Four or five years ago I came across this very sexy foto (seen directly above, and simply labeled Entrenador,) of a physical trainer in Mexico City and found myself searching for more of him to no avail.  Now all this time later, through an unrelated internet search of the young man who appears now to be his boyfriend and student, I’ve not only found more pictures of this fellow but learned his name as well.  I will likely put together a post of fotos of his handsome protégé, Xavier, as well, but for now I will simply savor my happy discovery and imagine their training sessions and aftermath.