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| Stefano Maderno St Cecilia 1600 marble Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome |
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| Giulio dell' Agnolo del Moro Risen Christ on Sepulchral Monument to Procurator Andrea Dolfin ca. 1605 marble Chiesa di San Salvatore, Venice |
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| Felice Palma Jupiter casting a Thunderbolt ca. 1612 marble Villa di Poggio Imperiale, Florence |
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| Andrea Bolgi Monument to Laura Frangipani 1637 marble Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa Grande, Rome |
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| Antonio Novelli Risen Christ ca. 1640-45 marble Basilica di San Marco, Florence |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini St Sebastian (detail) 1616-17 marble Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
What word have you, interpreters, of men
Who in the tomb of heaven walk by night,
The darkened ghosts of our old comedy?
Do they believe they range the gusty cold,
With lanterns borne aloft to light the way,
Freemen of death, about and still about
To find whatever it is they seek? Or does
That burial, pillared up each day as porte
And spiritous passage into nothingness,
Foretell each night the one abysmal night,
When the host shall no more wander, nor the light
Of the steadfast lanterns creep across the dark?
Make hue among the dark comedians,
Halloo them in the topmost distances
For answer from their icy Elysée.
– Wallace Stevens (1921)
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bust of Francesco I d'Este 1650-51 marble Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Angel holding Crown of Thorns 1668-69 marble Basilica di Sant' Andrea delle Fratte, Rome |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Blessed Ludovica Alberoni ca. 1671-75 marble Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa Grande, Rome |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Madonna di Loreto (Holy House transported by Angels and Cherubs) 17th century marble relief Duomo di Jesi |
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| Ercole Ferrata Portrait Bust of a Roman Ecclesiastic ca. 1662-65 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Giovanni Camillo Cateni St Luke painting the Portrait of the Virgin 1693 marble relief Chiesa di San Gaetano, Florence |
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| Giovanni Camillo Cateni St Luke 1693 marble Chiesa di San Gaetano, Florence |
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| Giuseppe Piamontini Preaching of St Mark 1693 marble relief Chiesa di San Gaetano, Florence |
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| Giuseppe Piamontini Martyrdom of St Jude 1698 marble relief Chiesa di San Gaetano, Florence |