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| Simone Martini Christ discovered in the Temple 1342 tempera on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Bernardo Daddi Crucifixion, with Saints 1348 tempera on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Lorenzo Monaco Coronation of the Virgin ca. 1407-1409 tempera on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Paolo Uccello The Annunciation ca. 1420-25 tempera on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Sassetta St Francis renounces his Earthly Father ca. 1437-44 tempera on panel National Gallery, London |
from Le Tombeau des Lutteurs
It is a tragedy, yes, but a confusing one. What happened to the wrestlers and where have they gone? Loulou the Pomeranian would love to know. Outdoors the hills are buried in snow, but inside a rose, a rose full-blown, a roomful of rose. The bloom and its shadow overtaking the space. The bloom proposing an impossible tomb. Of the Tachists, the master said to his friend Harry, "They paint white on white, and they believe that this is an achievement." Harry said, "I dare you to paint a white rose in a white room with a window looking onto a landscape covered with snow." Now this – which even Loulou, color-blindish, can tell is red – is the master's grandiose response to an intoxicating challenge. Synesthetically, the rose fills Loulou's pom ears with the echoes of torch songs, longing for the wrong. Loulou is practically drunk from the smell: a heady pink . . .
– Kathleen Rooney (2017)
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| Francesco Pesellino The Annunciation ca. 1450-55 tempera on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Cosmè Tura The Muse Calliope ca. 1455-60 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni di Paolo Baptism of Christ ca. 1460 tempera on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Piero and Antonio del Pollaiuolo Martyrdom of St Sebastian 1475 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Ercole de’ Roberti Pietà ca. 1482-86 tempera and oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Bernardino Butinone Christ disputing with the Doctors ca. 1480-90 oil on panel Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Carlo Crivelli The Annunciation, with St Emedius 1486 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni Santi (father of Raphael) Virgin and Child ca. 1488 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Filippino Lippi Wounded Centaur ca. 1490 tempera and oil on panel Christ Church, University of Oxford |
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| Luca Signorelli The Circumcision 1491 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |