Jason K. Swedene
Ordered List of Artwork relevant to the 2009 edition of Staying Alive
Chapter One
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991.
Francisco Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808
El Greco’s Burial of Count Orgaz
Henry VIII by Hans Holbein
Plan for tomb of Julius II by Michelangelo, 1505.
Terra Cotta Army created under emperor Chin discovered in this century, but dating back over 2500 years.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Nicolas Poussin, I Too Once Dwelled in Arcady
A Symposium Fresco from the Tomb of the Diver, c. 475BCE
J. B. Regnault, Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure, 1791
Jan Vermeer, The Art of Painting
Sandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi
Aegina Warrior (West Pediment: Parthenon)
Euripides, Orestes Papyrus
Leonardo Da Vinci, Last Supper
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Roettgen Pieta
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Raphael, Transfiguration
Vermeer, The Art of Painting
Qutb Minar, India
Vendome Column, France
Portrait of a Couple, Pompeii
Chartres Cathedral, France
Raphael, School of Athens
Picasso, Bull’s Head
Gino Severini, Armored Train in Action
Francisco Goya, Third of May 1808
Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii
Edouard Manet, The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
Edouard Manet, Olympia
Titian, Venus of Urbino
Michelangelo, Sistine Ceiling
Khufu, Great Pyramid
Chapter Six
Tithonus Dazzled by the Crowning of Aurora.
Francesco Solimena Italian, 1704
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Ramses II, relief
Ramses II, in death
Kouros from Sounion
New York Kouros
Ptoon Kouros
Auxerre Kore
Peplos Kore
Parthenon
