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| Anonymous Artist working in Rome Female Herm and Figure of Victory ca. 1550 drawing British Museum |
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| Johannes van Doeticum after Hans Vredeman de Vries Six Terms ca. 1565 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Annibale Fontana Herm before 1587 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Agostino Rubini Herm ca. 1590-1600 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Bernardino India Studies of Herms as Atlantes and Caryatids before 1590 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Gabriel Kramer Designs for Fourteen Herms 1610 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pietro Bernini assisted by Gianlorenzo Bernini Term in the form of Flora as Spring 1616-17 marble garden ornament for the Villa Borghese, Rome Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pietro Bernini assisted by Gianlorenzo Bernini Term in the form of Priapus as Autumn 1616-17 marble garden ornament for the Villa Borghese, Rome Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Epistles to Several Persons
To build, to plant, whatever you intend,
To rear the column, or the arch to bend,
To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot;
In all, let Nature never be forgot.
But treat the goddess like a modest fair,
Nor overdress, nor leave her wholly bare;
Let not each beauty ev'rywhere be spied,
Where half the skill is decently to hide.
He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds,
Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds.
– Alexander Pope (1744)
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| Jean Lepautre after Adam Philippon Design for Term with Two Bacchic Figures 1645 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jean Lepautre after Adam Philippon Design for Term with Two Embracing Satyrs 1645 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Hubert Quellinus Herm of Priapus ca. 1646-70 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop Antique Herm ca. 1672-89 etching British Museum |
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| Jean Lepautre Terms of Mercury and Minerva 1674 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Raising of a Herm of Dionysus 17th century engraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jonas Umbach Children dancing around a Herm before 1693 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |