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| Giuseppe Passeri Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael before 1714 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Rest on the Flight into Egypt before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Virgin and Child enthroned, adored by a Bishop and a Monk before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Christ between Moses and Elijah before 1714 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well before 1714 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
We agree in principle. That's clear. But take
The opposing law and make a peristyle,
And from the peristyle project a masque
Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness,
Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last,
Is equally converted into palms,
Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm,
Madame, we are where we began. Allow,
Therefore, that in the planetary scene
Your disaffected flagellants, well-stuffed,
Smacking their muzzy bellies in parade,
Proud of such novelties of the sublime,
Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk,
May, merely may, madame, whip from themselves
A jovial hullabaloo among the spheres.
This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.
– Wallace Stevens (1922)
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| attributed to Giuseppe Passeri Magdalene washing the feet of Christ before 1714 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giuseppe Passeri The Flagellation before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri St Augustine with Angels in Adoration of the Crucified Christ ca. 1685-95 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Descent from the Cross before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Descent from the Cross before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Pietà ca. 1708-14 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Studies of a Mourner before 1714 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas before 1714 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giuseppe Passeri Four Saints ca. 1675-1700 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |