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| Louis Finson Self Portrait 1613 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Self Portrait ca. 1623 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Nathaniel Bacon Self Portrait ca. 1625 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Simon Vouet Self Portrait ca. 1626-27 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Jan Lievens Self Portrait ca. 1629-30 oil on panel private collection |
On The Morning of Christ's Nativity (excerpt)
The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the archèd roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance or breathèd spell
Inspires the pale-eyes priest from the prophetic cell.
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Nor is Osiris seen
In Memphian grove or green,
Trampling th' unshowered grass with lowings loud.
Nor can he be at rest
Within his sacred chest,
Nought but profoundest Hell can be his shroud.
In vain with timbrelled anthems dark
The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipped ark.
– John Milton (1629)
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| Judith Leyster Self Portrait ca. 1630 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pietro da Cortona Self Portrait ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio (Corsica) |
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| Robert Walker Self Portrait ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Bartholomeus van der Helst Self Portrait 1655 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Guillaume Courtois (Il Borgognone) Self Portrait ca. 1655-65 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon |
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| Karel Dujardin Self Portrait 1662 oil on copper Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| John Greenhill Self Portrait ca. 1665 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Mary Beale Self Portrait ca. 1675 oil on canvas St Edmundsbury Museums, Suffolk |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Self Portrait as St John the Baptist ca. 1675-78 oil on canvas Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève (Switzerland) |