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| Lorenzo Lippi Allegory of Innocence ca. 1640 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Frans Snyders The Poulterer's Shop ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| David Teniers the Younger The Sense of Sight (from series - The Five Senses) ca. 1640 oil on copper Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Govert Flinck Portrait of an Oriental ca. 1640-42 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| William Dobson after Matthais Stom Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1640-43 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Guercino Absalom and Tamar ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire |
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| Bartolomé Murillo Young Man with Basket of Fruit (Personification of Summer) ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Summer
Absolute zero: the locust sings:
summer's caught in eternity's rings:
the rock explodes, the planet dies,
we shovel up our verities.
The razor rasps across the face
and in the glass our fleeting race
lit by infinity's lightning wink
under the thunder tries to think.
In this frail gourd the granite pours
the timeless howls like all outdoors
the sensuous moment builds a wall
open as wind, no wall at all:
while still obedient to valves and knobs
the vascular jukebox throbs and sobs
expounding hope propounding yearning
proposing love, but never learning
or only learning at zero's gate
like summer's locust the final hate
formless ice on a formless plain
that was and is and comes again.
– Conrad Aiken (1953)
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| Pieter Soutman Samson and Delilah 1642 oil on canvas York Art Gallery |
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| follower of Anthony van Dyck Portrait of John, Baron Craven of Ryton ca. 1643-47 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Theodore Russel Portrait of a Lady ca. 1645 oil on panel National Trust, Packwood House, Warwickshire |
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| Peter Lely Reuben presenting Mandrakes to Leah ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Gerard Soest Portrait of William Fairfax, 3rd Viscount Fairfax of Emley and his wife Elizabeth ca. 1645-48 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Daniel van den Dyck Portrait of Antonio Canal 1647 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Le Nain Brothers Studies of Three Men and a Boy ca. 1647-48 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Robert Walker Portrait of John Evelyn 1648 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |