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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Portrait of a Lady ca. 1460-70 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| workshop of Rogier van der Weyden Portrait of a Lady ca. 1460-66 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Alesso Baldovinetti Portrait of a Lady ca. 1465 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Woman at a Window ca. 1510-30 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Maarten van Heemskerck Portrait of Margaretha Banken ca. 1540-42 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Master John Portrait of Princess Mary Tudor, later Queen 1544 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
Ballade of Dead Actors
Where are the passions they essayed,
And where the tears they made to flow?
Where the wild humours they portrayed
For laughing worlds to see and know?
Othello's wrath and Juliet's woe?
Sir Peter's whims and Timon's gall?
And Millament and Romeo?
Into the night go one and all.
Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed?
The plumes, the armours – friend or foe?
The cloth of gold, the rare brocade,
The mantles glittering to and fro?
The pomp, the pride, the royal show?
The cries of war and festival?
The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow?
Into the night go one and all.
The curtain falls, the play is played:
The Beggar packs beside the Beau,
The Monarch troops, and troops the Maid,
The Thunder huddles with the Snow.
Where are the revellers high and low?
The clashing swords? The lover's call?
The dancers gleaming row on row?
Into the night go one and all.
Envoy –
Prince, in one common overthrow
The Hero tumbles with the Thrall:
As dust that drives, as straws that blow,
Into the night go one and all.
– William Ernest Henley (1888)
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| Alonso Sánchez Coello Portrait of Anne of Austria, Queen of Spain ca. 1570 oil on canvas Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| attributed to Hans Eworth Portrait of Lady Mary Grey ca. 1571 oil on panel Chequers Court, Aylesbury |
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| George Gower Portrait of Mary Denton 1573 oil on panel York Art Gallery (Yorkshire) |
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| attributed to Adrian Vanson Portrait of Lady Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll 1599 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Joseph Heintz the Elder Portrait of Konstanze von Habsburg 1604 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| attributed to William Larkin Portrait of Lady Anne Sackville ca. 1615 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger Portrait of Mary, Lady Scudamore 1615 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Daniel Mytens Portrait of Elizabeth Leicester ca. 1620 oil on canvas Tabley House, Cheshire |