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| Félix Ziem Venice in Flood ca. 1875 oil on canvas Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire |
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| James Holland The Rialto, Venice ca. 1845-50 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Francesco Guardi Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice ca. 1780-90 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Walter Sickert Palazzo Eleonora Duse, Venice ca. 1901 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Bernardo Bellotto Piazza San Martino, Lucca before 1780 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Paul Bril View of Bracciano ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| William Fettes Douglas Street in Rome 1857 oil on panel Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Gaspard Dughet View of Tivoli with Rome in the Distance ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jan Baptist Weenix Italian Port Scene before 1660 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Carel Weight Temple of Malatesta, Rimini 1945 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
Contortionist
in the blackest recesses of Bistro Malatesta entre les heures du quatre à cinq
(forgoing his liaison with Odette for the third time in as many days) Prudhomme
observes a snailfish
undulating round the hat stand's spine, the stalagmites of candles (its sad, small
eyes, its cryptic lack of scales)
wants to cleave to it
wants to shake the dipsomaniac in the corner, hiss Ay caramba! Have you seen it?
Here on the Rue Mouffetard – so far from deep-sea canyons, so far from home?
considers eating it flavored with rosemary, flavored with dill
whiskery thing
sees it, loses it in Gauloise furls, catches it again, its curl/uncurl progression along a
velveteen banquette
it stirs him – its decision in oblivion to be a thing of light and so gelatinous
thinks of turtles nibbled at by surgeonfish
wonders if perhaps he's lost his grip, and if he has,
likes it
– Claudine Toutoungi (2018)
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| Philip de László The Bronze Horses of St Mark's, Venice 1926 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee |
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| David Woodlock Feeding the Pigeons in St Mark's Square, Venice ca. 1897 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Sydney Lee Theatre of Marcellus, Rome 1927 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Ferdinand Heilbuth Excavations in Rome ca. 1873-75 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Corner of the Gardens of the Villa Borghese 1876 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |