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| Antonio Visentini Castello di S. Andrea on the Lido, Venice (book illustration with galley and gondolas) 1738 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Antonio Visentini Designs for Initial Capitals with Venetian Scenes N for San Niccolò di Castello P for Palazzo delle Prigioni (book illustrations) 1738 drawings Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Francesco Zuccarelli Landscape with Herdsmen and Shepherdesses ca. 1745-55 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Francesco Zuccarelli Landscape with Herdsmen and Shepherdesses resting by a River ca. 1745-55 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Francesco Monti Diana and Endymion (study for fresco) before 1768 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
from On a Raised Beach
All is lithogenesis – or lochia,
Carpolite fruit of the forbidden tree,
Stones blacker than any in the Caaba,
Cream-coloured caen-stone, chatoyant pieces,
Celadon and corbeau, bistre and beige,
Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
Making mere faculae of the sun and moon,
I study you glout and gloss, but have
No cadrans to adjust you with, and turn again
From optik to haptik and like a blind man run
My fingers over you, arris by arris, burr by burr,
Slickensides, truité, rugas, faveoles,
Bringing my aesthesis in van to bear,
An angle-titch to all your corrugations and coigns,
Hatched foraminous cavo-rilievo of the world,
Deictic, fiducial stones. Chiliad by chiliad
What bricole piled you here, stupendous cairn?
What artist poses the Earth écorché thus,
Pillar of creation engouled in me?
What eburnation augments you with men's bones,
Every energumen an Endymion yet?
– Hugh MacDiarmid (1934)
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Guido Reni Triumph of Job before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Lorenzo Sabbatini Holy Family with St Michael Archangel and St John the Baptist before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Ludovico Carracci Christ and St Matthew before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Ludovico Carracci Madonna Bargellini before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Ludovico Carracci St George and the Dragon before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Raphael St Cecilia before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi after Ludovico Carracci Birth of St John the Baptist before 1802 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jacopo Alessandro Calvi after Guido Reni Samson before 1815 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |