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| Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione A Pagan Sacrifice ca. 1645-50 oil on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Triumph of Galatea ca. 1630 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Jacopo Tintoretto Jonah cast up by the Whale ca. 1656 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Jacopo Tintoretto Sacrifice of Isaac ca. 1656 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
Effort lay in us
before religions
at pond bottom
All things move toward
the light
except those
that freely work down
to oceans' black depths
In us an impulse tests
the unknown
– Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
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| Jacopo da Empoli Standing Male Figure ca. 1600 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Guercino St John the Baptist 1641 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Guercino Damon and Pythias 1632 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Guercino Bearded Man seated at a Table ca. 1650-60 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Guercino Group of Figures with an Owl on a Pole before 1666 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
A monster owl
out on the fence
flew away. What
is it the sign
of? The sign of
an owl.
– Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
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| Pasquale Ottino Virgin and Child in Glory with St Sebastian, St John the Evangelist and St Roch ca. 1610 oil on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Orazio Borgianni after Raphael Baptism of Christ before 1616 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Pietro da Cortona The Adventus of Hadrian before 1669 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Baldassare Franceschini after Correggio Copy of Fresco Figures in San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma ca. 1650-60 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini Allegory of the Investiture of Cosimo I as Grand Duke of Florence ca. 1675-1700 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |