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| Francesco Albani Salmacis and Hermaphroditus ca. 1620 oil on copper Louvre |
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| Francesco Albani Daphne and Apollo ca. 1615-20 oil on copper Louvre |
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| Guercino Landscape with Concert 1617 oil on copper Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
Abbi, musica bella,
anzi musa novella, abbiti il vanto
dele due chiare cetre
che le piante movean, movean le pietre.
Che val però col canto
vivificar le cose inanimate,
se nel tuo vivo cor morta è pietate?
O chiari, o degni onori,
porger l'anima ai tronchi e torla ai cori!
O belle, o ricche palme,
dando, la vita ai sassi, uccider l'alme!
You have, beautiful music
(new muse rather) the power
of the two famous lyres [Orpheus and Amphion]
that moved the plants, moved the stones.
What avails it, however,
to bring alive inanimate things with song
if in your living heart compassion is dead?
O shining, o worthy honors,
to give spirit to trees and take it from hearts!
O beautiful, o rich palms,
giving life to stones you kill souls!
– madrigal from Lira by Giambattista Marino (friend of musicians, friend of painters) published in Rome in 1614
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| Guercino St Sebastian succored by two angels 1617 oil on copper Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire |
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| Guercino Dead Christ Mourned by Two Angels ca. 1617-18 oil on copper National Gallery, London |
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| Guercino Vision of St Jerome 1619-20 oil on copper Louvre |
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| Domenichino Lamentation 1603 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Domenichino Landscape with Burning Bush ca. 1610-15 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Landscape with St Christopher ca. 1605-10 oil on copper Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
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| Orazio Gentileschi David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1610 oil on copper Staatliche Museen, Berlin |
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| Palma il Giovane Christ at the Probatic Pool before 1628 oil on copper private collection |
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| Ludovico Carracci Madonna and Child with Saints 1607 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi) Venus and Adonis ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper private collection |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Diana and Actaeon 1603 oil on copper Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |