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| Ludovico Mazzolino Christ before Pilate ca. 1530 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Parmigianino Portrait of a Man with a Book ca. 1530 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Bernardino Luini Circumcision of Christ before 1532 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Allegory with Venus and Cupid ca. 1545 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Bonifazio Veronese Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth, St John the Baptist, St Margaret, St Anthony Abbot, and St Jerome before 1553 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| follower of Jacopo Tintoretto Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1550-75 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| attributed to Francesco Ubertini (Il Bacchiacca) Donor Figure (altarpiece fragment) before 1557 oil on panel Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire |
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| attributed to Lorenzo Sabbatini after Marcello Venusti Pietà ca. 1560 oil on panel Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Mirabello Cavalori A Discussion ca. 1560-70 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |
For a Traveler
I only have a moment so let me tell you the shortest story,
about arriving at a long loved place, the house of friends in Maine,
their lawn of wildflowers, their grandfather clock and candid
portraits, their gabled attic rooms, and woodstove in the kitchen,
all accessories of the genuine summer years before, when I was
their son's girlfriend and tied an apron behind my neck, beneath
my braids, and took from their garden the harvest for a dinner
I would make alone and serve at their big table with the gladness
of the found, and loved. The eggplant shone like polished wood,
the tomatoes smelled like their furred collars, the dozen zucchini
lined up on the counter like placid troops with the onions, their
minions, and I even remember the garlic, each clove from its airmail
envelope brought to the cutting board, ready for my instruction.
And in this very slight story, a decade later, I came by myself,
having been dropped by the airport cab, and waited for the family
to arrive home from work. I walked into the lawn, waist-high
in the swaying, purple lupines, the subjects of June's afternoon light
as I had never been addressed – a displaced young woman with
cropped hair, no place to which I wished to return, and no one
to gather me in his arms. That day the lupines received me,
and I was in love with them, because they were all I had left,
and in that same manner I have loved much of the world since then,
and who is to say there is more of a reason, or more to love?
– Jessica Greenbaum (2014)
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| Jacopo Bassano Adoration of the Magi ca. 1565-70 oil on canvas Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| attributed to Paris Bordone Holy Family with St John the Baptist before 1571 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Christ in Glory with St Agnes and St Helena ca. 1571 oil on panel (sketch) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| attributed to Federico Zuccaro (during his stay in England) Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I ca. 1574 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Jesus College, University of Oxford |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Portrait of a Young Man holding a Statuette 1575 oil on canvas Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| Michele Tosini St Catherine before 1577 oil on panel National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire |