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| Hans Holbein Portrait of a Woman ca. 1532-43 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Isaac Oliver Nymphs and Satyrs ca. 1605-1610 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller Vulcan ca. 1590-95 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller Pluto ca. 1590-95 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Pluto
Don't feel small. We all have
been demoted. Go on being
moon or rock or orb, buoyant
and distant, smallest craft ball
at Vanevenhoven's Hardware
spray-painted purple or day-glow
orange for a child's elliptical vision
of fish line, cardboard and foam.
No spacecraft has touched you,
no flesh met the luster of your
heavenly body. Little cold one, blow
your horn. No matter what you are
planet, and something other than
planet, ancient but not "classical,"
the controversy over what to call you
light-hours from your ears. On Earth
we tend to nurture the diminutive,
root for the diminished. None
of your neighbors know your name.
Nothing has changed. If Charon's
not your moon, who cares? She
remains unmoved, your companion.
– Maggie Dietz (2016)
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| Hendrik Goltzius Perseus and Andromeda 1597 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Fall of Man 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Johann Rottenhammer Judgment of Paris 1616 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Aegidius Sadeler The Three Crosses before 1629 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anonymous British Artist Four Antique Female Busts 17th century drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Nicholas Rockox (Mayor of Antwerp and friend of Rubens) ca. 1634-35 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Simon Gribelin after Raphael The Miraculous Draught of Fishes 1707 drawing (copy of Raphael's tapestry cartoon) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Head of a Man in a Turban before 1721 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| John Flaxman Design for Candelabrum with The Apples of the Hesperides ca. 1816-17 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| David Wilkie Two Sketches of Dead Eagles ca. 1833 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |