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| Anonymous French Artist Hercules and King Busiris ca. 1550 shell cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist The Expulsion from Paradise ca. 1550 onyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jacques Dubroeucq Dead Christ supported by God the Father ca. 1550 alabaster relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Battle Scene ca. 1550 marble relief Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous French Artist The Reign of Jupiter ca. 1550-70 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
from Elegia 15
Envie, why carpest thou my time is spent so ill,
And tearmes my works fruits of an idle quill?
Or that unlike the line from whence I sprong,
Wars dustie honors are refused being yong,
Nor that I studie not the brawling lawes,
Nor set my voyce to sale in everie cause?
Thy scope is mortall, mine eternall fame,
That all the world may ever chaunt my name.
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About my head be quivering Mirtle wound,
And in sad lovers heads let me be found.
The living, not the dead can envie bite,
For after death all men receive their right:
Then though death rackes my bones in funerall fier,
Ile live, and as he puls me downe, mount higher.
– translated after Ovid by Christopher Marlowe (ca. 1585)
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist The Entombment ca. 1550-1600 alabaster relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| workshop of Guglielmo della Porta The Flagellation ca. 1560 silver relief Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giambologna Allegory of Francesco I de' Medici ca. 1561 bronze relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Dirk Coornhert Capture of King Francis I of France at the Battle of Pavia (from series, Victories of Emperor Charles V) ca. 1570-80 cherrywood relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Milan Venus and Adonis in a Landscape ca. 1575 sardonyx cameo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Sacrifice of Aaron ca. 1575-1600 brass relief Harvard Art Museums |
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| Hubert Gerhard The Resurrection 1581-84 gilt-bronze relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Cesare Targone The Virgin mourning the Dead Christ 1586-87 repoussé gold relief on obsidian background Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alessandro Masnago Abduction of Proserpine ca. 1590 agate cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Gaspare Morone Mola Hercules battling the Centaur 1598 wax on slate (modello for a medal) British Museum |