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| Paul Musurus Turkish Porter ca. 1855-65 drawing British Museum |
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| Elihu Vedder Study for Fountain Figure (front) ca. 1890 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Elihu Vedder Study for Fountain Figure (back) ca. 1890 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Boy with Umbrella before 1770 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
A straight rain is rare and doors have suspicions
and I hold that names begin histories
and that the last century was a cruel one. I am pretending
to be a truck in Mexico. I am a woman with a long neck and a good burden
and I waddle efficiently. Activity never sleeps and no tale of crumbling cliffs
can be a short one. I have to shift weight favorably. Happiness
can't be settled. I brush my left knee twice, my right once,
my left twice again and in that way advance. The alphabet
and the cello can represent horses but I can only pretend
to be a dog slurping pudding. After the 55 minutes it takes to finish
my legs tremble. All is forgiven. Yesterday is going the way of tomorrow
indirectly and the heat of the sun is inadequate at this depth. I see
the moon. The verbs ought and can lack infinity and somewhere
between 1957 when the heat of the dry sun naughtily struck me
and now when my secrets combine in the new order of cold rains
and night winds a lot has happened. Long phrases
are made up of short phrases that bear everything "in vain" or "all
in fun" "for your sake" and "step by step" precisely. I too can spring.
– Lyn Hejinian (2012)
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| attributed to Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Study for Atlante before 1718 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Study for Atlante before 1718 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Carlo Maratti after Raphael Atlante with Yoke and Scroll (from fresco in the Stanza di Costantino, Vatican) before 1713 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Matthias Steinl Triton as Atlante ca. 1685-95 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Ignudi in Pendentive before 1684 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Marco Marchetti Design for Ornamental Base with Kneeling Satyrs and Satyresses as Caryatids ca. 1550-1600 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giulio Campi Female Captive in Chains (study for Support Element in Triumphal Arch for the Entry of Charles V into Cremona) ca. 1541 drawing British Museum |
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| Giulio Campi Bearded Captive in Chains (study for Support Element in Triumphal Arch for the Entry of Charles V into Cremona) ca. 1541 drawing British Museum |
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| Parmigianino Winged Female Figure supporting an Octagonal Frame ca. 1531-33 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Parmigianino Twisting Male Figure supporting an Octagonal Frame ca. 1531-33 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |