Gustave Moreau, L’Apparition (1876-7)
Zelfportret (1601) by Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) (pron. roughly OO-tuh-vaal), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
Previously pre-posted:
• She-Shell — Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (1611) by Wtewael
Autoritratto (1902) di Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), as seen in Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits
• Shakespeare + Beethoven + Michelangelo = Wagner
Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (c. 1612), Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)
Interesting facts in-terms-of-issues-around this painting, known as Judith with the Head of Holofernes in English: according to Allori’s first biographer Filippo Baldinucci, the severed head is a self-portrait of Allori, the decapitatrix is an ex-girlfriend, Maria di Giovanni Mazzafirri, and the old servant is her mother (from A Face to the World, Laura Cumming, 2009).
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Orchid Kid – The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)
• Deep in the Dark – The Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)
• Faces and Facts – The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)
• Persian Pool – Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)
• Hooky Here – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)
• #MiToo – Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)
• Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
A portrait of the clockmaker Thomas Mudge by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1772)
Note: The title of this incendiary intervention was buried by Anthony Burgess in the title of his magisterial A Clockwork Orange (1962): in Malay, orang means “man” (as in orangutan, “man of the forest”). The book asks whether man is clockwork or has free will. Obviously, Thomas Mudge was a “clockwork orang” in another sense.
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Conteur Compatissant – Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (Everyman’s Library 1934)
• Riff-Raph – 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)
• Fall of the Wild – A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke (1961)
• Orchid and Oak – Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, W.E. Vine et al (Thomas Nelson 1984)
• Hoare Here – Risingtidefallingstar, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate 2017)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
King George III in Coronation Robes by Allan Ramsay (c. 1765)
Anne Cresacre by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1527)
Prince, n’enquerez de sepmaine
Où elles sont, ne de cest an,
Que ce refrain ne vous remaine:
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan!
• Ballade des Dames du temps jadis, François Villon (1431-c.1489)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
