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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Shepherd Daphnis playing a Pipe ca. 1520-30 bronze statuette Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Kneeling Satyr ca. 1525 bronze statuette Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Oil Lamp in the form of a Sphinx ca. 1525 bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Virgin and Child ca. 1520-25 terracotta (surviving fragment of full-length statue) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Francesco Salviati Design for a Fan Handle before 1563 drawing British Museum |
The Maldive Shark
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates!
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey,
Yet never partake of the treat –
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat.
– Herman Melville (1888)
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| Giuseppe Salviati The Resurrection before 1575 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giampietro Silvio Holy Family with St John the Baptist and St Jerome ca. 1520-25 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Sodoma Christ at the Column (from the Life of St Benedict cycle) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Battling Tritons and Battling Men on Hippocampi before 1596 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Paolo Veronese Creation of Eve ca. 1570-80 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| workshop of Paolo Veronese Personification of Charity before 1588 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| workshop of Paolo Veronese Personification of Faith before 1588 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| workshop of Paolo Veronese Personification of Fortitude before 1588 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| workshop of Paolo Veronese Personifications of Justice and Prudence before 1588 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |