2 / Dreams and Visions

• • The Ecstasy of St. TeresaGian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)	Garden of Earthly DelightsHieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516)	The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq from the Bustan of SacdiUnknown painter; Sultan Muhammad Nur (calligrapher) (Uzbekistani, active first half of 16th century)	The ScreamEdvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)	The False MirrorRené Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)	Le Pont-au-Change (The Exchange Bridge, Paris)Charles Méryon (French, 1821–1868)
    St. Francis of AssisiFrancisco de Zurbaràn (Spanish, 1598–1644)	The Four SleepersMokuan Reien (Japanese, d. 1345)	Revenge of the GoldfishSandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)	Women’s Dreamings of the Tanami Desert 2Margaret Anjullu (Anjule Bumblebee) (Aboriginal, n.d.)	“Sisilia Sii–Weaver”Flores Island, Indonesia	Utatane soshi emaki (A Wakeful Sleep)Tosa Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1434–1525)
    Dream, Caused by the Flight of a Bee (Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up)Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)	Angel of the RevelationWilliam Blake (English, 1757–1827)	The JungleWifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982)	The Broken ColumnFrida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954)	HeadrestShona artist, Zimbabwe	Lintel 25 of Yaxchilán Structure 23Maya artist, Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico

expert perspective

Edward J. Sullivan Professor of Fine Arts, New York University

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The Spanish seventeenth century, of course, is a period when religious fervor was very strong, and many of these artists who are working for religious institutions are often charged to—or of their own volition, of their own interest—create images of saints in ecstasy. And one of the more sober formats was developed by the painter Francisco de Zurbaràn, who did many, many saints in ecstasy, and I think that his favorite was Saint Francis, wearing his brown hooded robe. And very often Zurbaràn portrays Saint Francis standing alone on a ground completely isolated and inwardly directed, prayerful, whereas other artists they take their figures and they fly them up into the heavens and surround them by angels and create this sense of almost orgiastic ecstasy.”