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| Giulio Bonasone The Virgin washes the Christ Child, accompanied by helpers and an angel ca. 1550-60 engraving on blue paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Battista Franco The Philistines place the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple of Dagon ca. 1540 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Battista Franco Six Animals - including Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Gryphon and Goat before 1561 etching and engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Agostino Carracci Orpheus and Eurydice ca. 1590-95 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Eurydice
So you have swept me back,
I who could have walked with the live souls
above the earth,
I who could have slept among the live flowers
at last;
so for your arrogance
and your ruthlessness
I am swept back
where dead lichens drip
dead cinders upon moss of ash;
so for your arrogance
I am broken at last,
I who had lived unconscious,
who was almost forgot;
if you had let me wait
I had grown from listlessness
into peace,
if you had let me rest with the dead,
I had forgot you
and the past.
– H.D. (1916)
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| Antonio Tempesta Hercules and Achelous (in foreground, from series The Labors of Hercules) 1608 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous printmaker after Cherubino Alberti Winged figure of Fame sounding a trumpet ca. 1600-1620 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio Personification of Autumn in spandrel before 1615 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Palma il Giovane Judith with the head of Holofernes before 1628 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Palma il Giovane Sheet of studies, with St Jerome before 1628 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Stefano della Bella Interior - Church of San Lorenzo, Florence - decorated for funeral of Emperor Ferdinand II 1637 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from God's Obsequies
So I went to the funeral of God,
A ten-Cadillac affair,
And sat in a stun. It seemed everyone
Who had helped do Him in was there:
Karl Marx had a wide smirk on his face;
Friedrich Engels, a simpering smile,
And Friedrich Nietzsche, worm-holed and leechy,
Kept tittering all the while.
There was Sigmund Freud whose couch had destroyed
The soul, there was Edward Gibbon,
And that earth-shaking cuss Copernicus
Sent a wreath with a sun-gold ribbon.
– X.J. Kennedy (2007)
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| Stefano della Bella Ornamental design for a thesis, with the Strozzi coat-of-arms ca. 1660 engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Salvator Rosa Man pulling a net, with figures behind ca. 1656-57 etching and drypoint Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Salvator Rosa Figure reclining on a rock and pointing ca. 1660-61 etching and drypoint Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Salvator Rosa Figure supporting a tablet with Herm of Diana of Ephesus ca. 1656-57 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |