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| Leonhard Kern Christ Child and St John the Baptist ca. 1614-20 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ignaz Bendl Bacchanal 1684 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ignaz Bendl Apollo and the Muses (Judgment of Midas) 1684 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ignaz Elhafen Herzog Karl V von Lothringen ca. 1687-91 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Dominikus Stainhart The Flagellation before 1721 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Dominikus Stainhart Lamentation before 1721 ivory relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Epitaph on Himself
To the Countess of Bedford
Madam,
That I might make your cabinet my tomb,
And for my fame, which I love next my soul,
Next to my soul provide the happiest room,
Admit to that place this last funeral scroll.
Others by testament give legacies, but I
Dying, of you do beg a legacy.
My fortune and my choice this custom break,
When we are speechless grown to make stones speak,
Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou
In my grave's inside seest what thou art now,
Yet thou 'rt not yet so good; till death us lay
To ripe and mellow here, we're stubborn clay.
Parents make us earth, and souls dignify
Us to be glass; here to grow gold we lie.
Whilst in our souls sin bred and pampered is,
Our souls become worm-eaten carcases,
So we ourselves miraculously destroy.
Here bodies with less miracle enjoy
Such privileges, enabled here to scale
Heaven, when the trumpet's air shall them exhale.
Hear this, and mend thyself, and thou mend'st me,
By making me, being dead, do good for thee;
And think me well composed, that I could now
A last sick hour to syllables allow.
– John Donne (1631)
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| Ancient Rome Lioness with Cubs 25 BC marble relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Ewe with Lamb 25 BC marble relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Heads of Sacrificial Bulls with Garlands ca. AD 150 marble relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Tullio Lombardo Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1505-1510 marble relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Maucher Throne of Emperor Leopold I (fragment with Alexander the Great) 1677 amber relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Maucher Throne of Emperor Leopold I (fragment with Julius Caesar) 1677 amber relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Maucher Throne of Emperor Leopold I (fragment with King Cyrus) 1677 amber relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Maucher Throne of Emperor Leopold I (fragment with King Nimrod) 1677 amber relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |