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| Anonymous Artist working in Germany Rosary (ten-bead) ca. 1500-1525 agate, gold, silver, ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Masnago Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1600-1620 agate cameo with silver-gilt mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Masnago Madonna and Child in Clouds ca. 1590 agate cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Masnago Entombment ca.1600-1620 agate cameo with silver-gilt mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Masnago Noah's Ark ca. 1590-1600 agate cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany
In what torn ship soever I embark,
That ship shall be my emblem of thy ark.
What sea soever swallow me, that flood
Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood.
Though thou with clouds of anger do disguise
Thy face, yet through that mask I know those eyes,
Which, though they turn away sometimes
They never will despise.
I sacrifice this island unto thee
And all whom I loved there, and who loved me;
When I have put our seas 'twixt them and me,
Put thou thy seas betwixt my sins and thee.
As the tree's sap doth seek the root below
In winter, in my winter now I go
Where none but thee, th' eternal root
Of true love I may know.
Nor thou nor thy religion dost control
The amorousness of an harmonious soul,
But thou would'st have that love thyself. As thou
Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now.
Thou lov'st not, till from loving more, thou free
My soul. Who ever gives, takes liberty.
O, if thou car'st not whom I love
Alas, thou lov'st not me.
Seal then this bill of my divorce to all,
On whom those fainter beams of love did fall.
Marry those loves, which in youth scattered be
On Fame, Wit, Hopes (false mistresses) to thee.
Churches are best for prayer that have least light:
To see God only, I go out of sight,
And to 'scape stormy days, I choose
An everlasting night.
– John Donne (1619)
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| Anonymous Artist working in France Archangel Michael defeating Lucifer ca. 1575-1600 onyx cameo with enameled-gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in the Netherlands Expulsion from Paradise ca. 1550 onyx cameo with silver-gilt mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Angermair Tempietto with Man of Sorrows ca. 1613-20 ivory and ebony Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Louis Siriès Crucifix ca. 1746 lapis lazuli with gold mount Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Adriaen de Vries Christ at the Column ca. 1613-15 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Ferdinand Murmann St Sebastian ca. 1630 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Christoph Fesenmair the Younger Clock with St Sebastian 1622-26 ebony, silver, coral, gold, enamel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Krumper Reliquary of St Valerianus before 1634 wax figures on ebony and glass casket ornamented with silver and gold Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Krumper Reliquary of St Tiburtius before 1634 wax figures on ebony and glass casket ornamented with silver and gold Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |