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| Willem Benson Virgin and Child ca. 1545-55 oil on panel Museo de Zaragoza, Spain |
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| Giovanni Battista Bertani Hercules and the Hydra ca. 1557-58 drawing (modello for print by Giorgio Ghisi) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Jost Amman Allegorical Scene - Old Man and Young Woman holding a Mirror 1574 drawing British Museum |
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| Michel Dorigny Bacchanalian Scene ca. 1638 drawing British Museum |
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| Jan van Bijlert Playing the Rommelpot [friction drum] ca. 1639 oil on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| Bartolomeo Biscaino God the Father in Flight preceded by the Holy Spirit ca. 1650 etching British Museum |
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| Cornelis Bisschop Bathsheba ca. 1660-65 oil on panel Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Jean-Simon Berthélemy Model posed as Apollo 1781 drawing British Museum |
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| Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Ship Ablaze, with Onlookers ca. 1790 charcoal and red chalk on paper British Museum |
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| Anonymous German Printmaker Napoleon's Marshals as Devils dancing around his Bust 1813 hand-colored etching British Museum |
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| John Downman Head of Minerva before 1824 drawing British Museum |
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| William Blake Dante with Farinata degli Uberti (illustration to the Inferno) ca. 1824-27 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Isabelle van Berchem The Erechtheum on the Acropolis, Athens 1893 albumen print Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Theo van Doesburg Space-Time Construction #3 1923 gouache and ink on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Rudolf Bauer Space 1932 ink, watercolor, colored pencil and graphite on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Charles Biederman Painting, New York 1936 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Marian Drew Crude and Cumbersome Objects Frozen into Place 1993 C-print Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
For the Lady Olivia Porter: A Present, upon a New-year's Day
Go! Hunt the whiter ermine and present
His wealthy skin as this day's tribute sent
To my Endymion's* love; though she be far
More gently smooth, more soft than ermines are.
Go! Climb that rock, and when thou there hast found
A star contracted in a diamond,
Give it Endymion's love; whose glorious eyes
Darken the starry jewels of the skies.
Go! Dive into the southern sea, and when
Thou hast found (to trouble the nice sight of men)
A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
Give it Endymion's love; whose every tear
Would more enrich the skillful jeweler.
How I command! How slowly they obey!
The churlish Tarter will not hunt today;
Nor will that nasty sallow Indian strive
To climb the rock, nor that dull negro dive.
Thus poets, like to kings, by trust deceived,
Give oftener what is heard of than received.
– Sir William Davenant, from the long poem Madagascar (1638)
*the famous courtier Endymion Porter, husband of Olivia