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| workshop of Benedetto Buglioni Frieze fragment with Seraph Heads ca. 1490-1500 tin-glazed earthenware Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Adolf Cattalinich The Biblical Truths 1995 colored pencil on board Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Joseph Chinard Base for a Monument to Peace 1804 plaster modello Musée du Louvre |
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| Joseph Chinard Portrait of Jean-Louis Gauldrée-Boilleau ca. 1810 terracotta bust Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Installation of 18th-century French Marble Sculpture Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Cressent Armoire (one of a pair) ca. 1740-60 oak veneered with rosewood, gilt-bronze mounts Musée du Louvre |
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| Carlo Crivelli and workshop Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints 1481 tempera on panels (altarpiece) Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| Jean-Antoine Cuenot Miroir Monumental (one of a pair) ca. 1749-50 giltwood and glass Musée du Louvre |
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| Louise Dahl-Wolfe Elizabeth Gibbons at The Creamery, Frenchtown, New Jersey 1940 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacques-Louis David Portrait of Ange Pauline Charlotte Ramel de Nogaret 1820 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Blaise-Louis Deharme Medici Vase and Pedestal 1804 tôle vernis with gilt-bronze appliqués Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to William De Morgan Waterlily Motif ca. 1905 watercolor on paper (design for tile) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jeanne Rosalie Desarnaud-Charpentier Vanity Table ca. 1819 beechwood, gilt bronze, crystal and glass Musée du Louvre |
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| Burgoyne Diller First Theme 1963-64 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Edme Dumont Buste de la citoyenne Veuve Dumont 1799 plaster Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Halley Two Cells 1987 acrylic on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Anonymous French Makers Chandelier with Ten Lights ca. 1700-1715 rock crystal and gilt copper Musée du Louvre |
Love is not just a function of the eyes.
Beautiful objects will, of course, inspire
Possessive urges – you need not despise
Your taste. But when insatiable desire
Inflames you for a girl who's out of fashion,
Lacking in glamour – plain, in fact – that fire
Is genuine; that's the authentic passion.
Beauty, though, any critic can admire.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Fleur Adcock