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| Antonio Rossellino Madonna and Child ca. 1465-70 marble relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Andrea Mantegna Entombment ca. 1480 bronze relief (partially gilt) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Daucher Holy Family with Angels 1518 limestone relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Maker Angels supporting the Dead Christ ca. 1600-1620 gilt-bronze relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Zacharias Lencker Adoration of the Christ Child 1609 silver relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Davideis
When Gabriel (no blest spirit more kind or fair)
Bodies and clothes himself with thickened air,
All like a comely youth in life's fresh bloom
(Rare workmanship, and wrought by heavenly loom!),
He took for skin a cloud most soft and bright
That e'er the midday sun pierced through with light;
Upon his cheeks a lively blush he spread,
Washed from the morning beauties' deepest red.
An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies,
Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes.
This he with starry vapours spangles all,
Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall.
Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade,
The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made.
Small streaming clouds he does for wings display,
Not virtuous lovers' sighs more soft than they.
These he gilds o'er with the sun's richest rays,
Caught gliding o'er pure streams on which he plays.
Thus dressed the joyful Gabriel posts away,
And carries with him his own glorious day
Through the thick woods; the gloomy shades a while
Put on fresh looks, and wonder why they smile.
The trembling serpents close and silent lie,
The birds obscene far from his passage fly.
A sudden spring waits on him as he goes,
Sudden as that by which creation rose.
– Abraham Cowley (1656)
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| Ottavio Miseroni Mary Magdalen ca. 1610 cameo in commesso relief (agate, jasper, carnelian, chalcedony) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Adam Lenckhardt Flagellation ca. 1650-60 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leonhard Kern Lamentation ca. 1614-20 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Georg Schweigger Baptism of Christ 1645 limestone relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Daniel Neuberger Conversion of Saul ca. 1655-60 colored wax relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Meister der Sebastiansmartyrien Martyrdom of St Sebastian 1655 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Johann Caspar Schenck Death of Christian Martyrs ca. 1665-74 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Magnus Berg Entombment 1710 ivory relief (rilievo schiacciato) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leonhard Stainhart Disrobing of Christ before 1721 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |