Chapter Sections > Chapter VII: The Rubedo, La Véraison, The Reddening

p.161: 'Dionysos', detail, c. 500 BC, Kleophrades, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

p. 161: Cy Twombly, 'Suma', detail, August 12, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Fo

p. 161: Nicolas Poussin, 'Triumph of Bacchus', 1635-6, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

p. 162: Cy Twombly, 'Leda and the Swan', 1962, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 162: Cy Twombly, 'Leda and the Swan', 1963, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p.162: Cy Twombly, 'Venus and Adonis', February 5, 1978, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 163: Cy Twombly, 'Vengeance of Achilles', 1962, Rome, Kunsthaus Zürich, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 164: Cy Twombly, 'Discourse on Commodus', (A Painting in Nine Parts), 1963, Part VII, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 165: Cy Twombly, 'Discourse on Commodus', (A Painting in Nine Parts), 1963, Part VIII, Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 166: Cy Twombly, 'Ilium (One Morning Ten Years Later)', 1964, Part I, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 167: Cy Twombly, 'Ilium (One Morning Ten Years Later)', 1964, Part II, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 167: Cy Twombly, 'Ilium (One Morning Ten Years Later)', 1964, Part III, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 168: 'Cy Twombly, 'Fifty Days at Iliam', Part I: Shield of Achilles, 1978, Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 169: Cy Twombly, 'Fifty Days at Iliam', Part V: The Fire That Consumes All Before It, 1978, Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

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p. 170: Cy Twombly, 'Fifty Days at Iliam', Part V: The Fire That Consumes All Before It, 1978, detail, Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 171: Cy Twombly, 'Fifty Days at Iliam', Part VI: Shades of Achilles, Patroclus and Hector, 1978, Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 173: 'Dionysos Sparagmos', detail, c. 450 BC, British Museum, London

p. 174: Cy Twombly, 'Shades of Night', January 8-August 1, 1978, Bassano in Teverina, Philadelphia Museum of Art, © Cy Twombly Foundation

p. 174: 'The Green Lion Devouring the Sun', from D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg, Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624

p. 175: Cy Twombly, '(HRIH)', I, August 5-8, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 175: Cy Twombly, '(HRIH)', II, August 5-8, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 175: Cy Twombly, '(HRIH)', III, August 5-8, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 175: Cy Twombly, '(HRIH)', IV, August 5-8, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Photo Mimmo Capone

p. 176: Cy Twombly, 'Suma', August 12, 1982, Bassano in Teverina, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Photography: Sperone Westwater Gallery

p. 177: 'Triumph of Dionysos', c. 220 AD, Roman, Imperial Period, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

p. 178: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto', Part IX, detail, 2001, Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 178: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto', Part VII, detail, 2001,Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 178: Protea

p. 178: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', detail, 1993, Gaeta, Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 179: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto', Part X, detail, 2001, Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 179: 'The Reddening of Sulphur', Cabala mineralis manuscript, 17th century, attr. Rabbi Simeon Ben Cantara

p. 179: Cy Twombly, 'Lepanto', Part VI, detail, 2001, Museum Brandhorst, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 180: Cy Twombly, 'Bacchus', Part II, detail, 1981, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 181: Cy Twombly, 'Hero and Leandro', 1985, (To Christopher Marlowe), Rome, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 181: 'Alchemical Laboratory, Distillation by Fire', Jan van der Straet, c. 1550, after Johannes Stradanus

p. 181: The White Rose and the Red Rose', Donum Dei, 17th century, Trésor des Trésors, Bibliothèque Nationale

p. 182: Cy Twombly, 'Coronation of Sesostris', Part III, 2000, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p.182: 'The Red Rose/ The Rubedo King', Johannes Andreae, 15th century, British Museum

p. 182: Cy Twombly, 'Coronation of Sesostris', Part IV, 2000, © Cy Twombly Foundation. Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio

p. 182: 'Coniunctio of the King and Queen, Sol and Luna, The Chemical Wedding', S. Trismosin, Splendor Solis, 16th century, London

p. 183: 'The King and the Queen', Rosarium philosophorum, 1550, Stadtbibliothek Vadiana, St. Gallen

p. 183: 'Aurora, the Splendour of the Sun', S. Trismosin, Splendor Solis, 16th century, London

p. 185: 'Gunatraya Chakrasana', c. 17th century AD, Nepal

p. 188: Cy Twombly, 'Untitled', installation view Parts VII and VIII, 2005, © Cy Twombly Foundation, Courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio. Installation view photograph by Rob McKeever, Gagosian Gallery

p.190: 'King and Queen in the Vessel', Clavis Artis Aurea, Anon., 17th century, German

p. 191: Cy Twombly, 'Flowers I', 2005, Gaeta, © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 191: Cy Twombly, 'Flowers II', 2005, Gaeta, © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 192: Cy Twombly, 'Flowers III', 2005, Gaeta, © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 192: Cy Twombly, 'Painting Detail (Roses)', photograph, 2009, Gaeta, © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio. Courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

p. 194: 'Dionysos and Satyr', c. 490 BC, Makron, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

p. 195: 'Fermentatio, The Union of the Opposites', Rosarium philosophorum, 1550, Statdbibliothek Vadiana, St. Gallen