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| attributed to Amico Aspertini Beheading of St John the Baptist before 1552 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Angelica encountering the wounded Medoro (scene from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto) ca. 1646-48 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Job and his Comforters ca. 1530-40 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Andrea Sacchi Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness ca. 1630 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| workshop of Jacopo Tintoretto Apollo and Diana slaying the Children of Niobe ca. 1545-48 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
from Niobe
How like the sky she bends above her child,
One with the great horizon of her pain!
No sob from our low seas where woe runs wild,
No weeping cloud, no momentary rain,
Can mar the heaven-high visage of her grief,
That frozen anguish, proud, majestic, dumb!
She stoops in pity above the labouring earth,
Knowing how fond, how brief
Is all its hope, past, present, and to come,
She stoops in pity, and yearns to assuage its dearth.
– Alfred Noyes (1907)
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| Pietro da Cortona Holy Family with Angels before 1669 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Philips Wouwerman Camp Scene ca. 1650-60 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Mariotto Albertinelli The Creation and The Fall of Man 1513-14 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Angels guiding the Shepherds to the Nativity ca. 1627-67 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Amarillis crowning Mirtillo with a Floral Wreath (scene from Il Pastor Fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini) ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Domenico Fetti Parable of the Sower of Tares ca. 1620-21 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Andrea Previtali Virgin and Child adored by Two Angels ca. 1505 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne St Benedict with St Scholastica and Two Companions in a Landscape ca. 1650-74 oil on canvas National Trust, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder Road Scene with Travellers and Cattle ca. 1611 oil on panel Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Raphael An Allegory (Vision of a Knight) ca. 1504 oil on panel National Gallery, London |