These are some of the men I have encountered in my recent travels. Above, a marvelous Endymion at the Metropolitan Museum New York.
Below, Tintoretto’s St. Sebastian in the Madonna of the Treasurers at the Academia in Venice.
A River God at Versailles…
The Farnese Hercules interpreted by Jeff Koons at the Whitney Museum retrospective show…
And Innocent X by Velasquez, from the Chomondley collection at the Houghton Hall show at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.