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| Luca Signorelli Figures Undressing in a Landscape (altarpiece fragment) ca. 1490 oil on panel Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Ralph Chubb The Bathers 1924 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Oblivion Conquering Fame (study for Troy Triptych) ca. 1872-75 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Fame Overthrowing Fortune (study for Troy Triptych) ca. 1872-75 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| follower of Francis Hayman The Wrestlers ca. 1750 oil on canvas National Trust, Bradley Manor, Newton Abbot |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist David with the Head of Goliath 17th century oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds |
I Had Just Hung Up from Talking to You
I had just hung up from talking to you
and we had been so immersed in the difficulty
you were facing, and forgive me,
I was thinking that as long as we kept talking,
you in your car in the parking lot of the boys' school
as the afternoon deepened into early evening,
and me in the study, all the books around
that had been sources of beauty to us,
as long as we stayed in the conversation
padded with history like the floor of the pine forest,
as long as I thought out loud, made a joke
at my own expense, you would be harbored in that exchange,
but the boys were leaving the track
and after we hung up I looked out the window
to see the top of the bare January trees spotlit to silvery red,
massive but made from the thinnest
twigs at the ends of the branches at the ends of the limbs
they were waving and shining in a light
like no other and left only to them.
– Jessica Greenbaum (2012)
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| James Irvine Ganymede 1786 oil on canvas University of Aberdeen |
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| Ralph Chubb Ganymede 1925 oil on canvas Reading Museum, Berkshire |
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| Daniel Maclise Sacrifice of Abel ca. 1835 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| William Etty Recumbent Model ca. 1820 oil on canvas Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Gilbert John Graham St Sebastian 1826 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| Henry Scott Tuke Study for Hermes at the Pool ca. 1900 oil on canvas Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth |
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| Patrick Procktor Al 1992 oil on foam-core Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Kirby Searching for Clues 1987 oil on canvas Royal College of Art, London |
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| Tom Wood Adam 1978 oil on canvas Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, Yorkshire |