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| Alessandro Gherardini Diana resting with Putto and Hounds ca. 1705 detached fresco Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Francesco Trevisani Martyrdom of the Seven Sons of St Felicity 1709 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Biagio Puccini St Victorinus ca. 1715-20 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Comunale Tacchi Venturi, San Severino Marche |
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| Pietro de' Pietri after Carlo Maratti Diana Bathing before 1716 oil on copper National Trust, Saltram, Devon |
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| Antonio Palomino St Sebastian before 1726 oil on canvas Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg |
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| Felice Ramelli after Carlo Cignani Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 1726 oil on ivory (cabinet miniature) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Francesco Solimena Portrait of a Woman ca. 1705 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
"When we have been smitten by one painter, then by another, we may end by feeling for the whole gallery an admiration that is not frigid, for it is made of successive enthusiasms, each one exclusive in its day, which finally have joined forces and become reconciled in one whole."
– Marcel Proust, from La Prisonnière (1923), translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as The Captive (1929)
"When one has fallen in love first with one painter, then with another, one can finally admire the whole museum in a way that is not chilly, for the admiration is made of successive loves, each of which in its time was exclusive, but which have finally coalesced."
– Marcel Proust, from La Prisonnière (1923), translated by Carol Clark as The Prisoner (2002)
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| Francesco Solimena Portrait of a Nobleman ca. 1730 oil on canvas Compton Verney, Warwickshire |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Triumph of Marius 1729 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Battle of Vercellae 1725-29 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Hagar and the Angel ca. 1776 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Athena revealing Ithaca to Ulysses ca. 1775 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Ulysses transformed into a Beggar by Athena ca. 1775 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia |
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| Johann Baptist Lampi Portrait of the architect La Tour 1790 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |