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| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Boy with a Spinning Top 1738 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Honoré Daumier Chess Players ca. 1863-67 oil on panel Musée du Petit Palais, Paris |
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| Christian Bernhard Rode Three Vestal Virgins at a Sacrificial Altar ca. 1753 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Edward Penfield Harper's, November 1895 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giovanni Battista Langetti Joseph in Prison interpreting Dreams ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Théodore Géricault Executioner and Victim before 1824 drawing Musée Bonnat Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Artus Quellinus Samson and Delilah ca. 1640 terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Francesco Cairo St Catherine of Alexandria gazing at Palm of Martyrdom ca. 1650-53 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Mexican Artist Retablo of Marciano Alcocer Castillo (ex-voto to the Virgin of San Juan) 1967 oil paint on metal Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Claude Mellan St John the Baptist in the Wilderness 1629 engraving and etching (dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Barberini) Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Drukkerij Senefelder (printer) Ivens & Co. Foto-Artikelen ca. 1899 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Oliviero Gatti after fresco by Pordenone Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1606 engraving Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi) Venus combing Cupid's Hair 1627 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Charles Turrell Miniature Portrait of Lady Ventry and her Son 1877 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi) Adoration of the Child ca. 1640-60 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Francisco de Zurbarán St Francis contemplating a Skull ca. 1635 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
"If shee were, O God," cri'd out Perissus, "what divelish spirit art thou, that thus dost come to torture me? But now I see you are a woman; and therefore not much to be marked, and lesse resisted: but if you know charitie, I pray now practise it, and leave me who am afflicted sufficiently without your companie; or if you will stay, discourse not to me."
"Neither of these will I doe," said she.
"If you be then," said he, "some furie of purpose sent to vex me, use your force to the uttermost in martyring me; for never was there a fitter subject, then the heart of poore Perissus is."
"I am no furie," repli'd the divine Urania, "nor hither come to trouble you, but by accident lighted on this place; my cruell hap being such, as onely the like can give me content, while the solitarinesse of this like Cave might give me quiet, though not ease; seeking for such a one, I happened hither; and this is the true cause of my being here, though now I would use it to a better end if I might: Wherefore favour me with the knowledge of your griefe; which heard, it may be I shall give you some counsell, and comfort in your sorrow."
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)