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| Cristoforo Roncalli and workshop Atlante ca. 1590-1600 fresco Sala del Tempesta, Appartamento della Principessa Isabelle Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
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| Francesco Salviati Ignudi supporting Garlands ca. 1543-45 fresco Sala dell' Udienza, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Christoph Unterberger Ornamental Composition with Grotesques and Atlantes supporting an Allegory of Poetry 1776 oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Design for Title-Page with Herms ca. 1638 oil on panel (grisaille) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Swansea Pottery Manufactory Bracket with Triton supporting a Net ca. 1850 molded terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum |
The Weight of Time
Subaqueous life goes on, while I expunge
The color of the wind, touch time, suppose
Man less than man, a sponge
Untouched by time that flows
Like water in a dream insensate thoughts compose.
Not wind, not water, is the pack
That seeks to crush my narrow back.
Fear beats like a heart within my breast.
Unmoving time between my shoulder-blades is pressed.
Cover me, blanket of quietude and sleep.
Day will come back and night return
Blanker than eyes that cannot weep.
Small my bones, but they will learn
Firmness of stone, – as the lizard first learned sleep.
– Pearl Andelson Sherry (1940)
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| Anonymous Artist working in Dresden Standing Cup (Neptune supporting engraved Nautilus shell) 1741 gilt silver British Museum |
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| Alfred George Stevens Half-length Study for Telamon ca. 1847 drawing Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist after Perino del Vaga Atlante ca. 1520 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Antonio da Brescia Ignudi in Pendentive ca. 1510-20 engraving British Museum |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Ignudi in Pendentive before 1684 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giacomo Maria Giovannini Two Pairs of Atlantes 1694 engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Marco Marchetti Design for Decorative Frieze with Telamons ca. 1570-75 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| François Perrier Antique Marble Satyrs as Atlantes (Della Valle Satyrs in the Capitoline Museum, Rome) 1638 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| workshop of Severo da Ravenna Atlantid ca. 1520 bronze statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Renascence
Ah, awful weight! Infinity
Pressed down upon the finite Me!
My anguished spirit, like a bird,
Beating against my lips I heard;
Yet lay the weight so close about
There was no room for it without.
And so beneath the weight lay I
And suffered death, but could not die.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917)