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| Giambattista Tiepolo Roman Soldier ca. 1720-22 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Jan Lievens Trumpeter on Horseback ca. 1625-28 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Charles-Antoine Coypel Portrait of Cornelius Galle the Younger at Age 18 before 1752 drawing (adapted from lost miniature) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Annibale Carracci Studies for Sleeping Venus ca. 1602 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Annibale Carracci Recumbent Model ca. 1583-85 drawing Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Luigi Asioli after Francesco Rosaspina Studies of Soldier and Horse ca. 1835-45 drawing Museo Civico, Comune di Correggio |
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| John Flaxman Prometheus Chained ca. 1792-93 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Fernão Gomes Martyrdom of St Sebastian ca. 1590 drawing Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
from Eleven Addresses to the Lord
Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake,
inimitable contriver,
endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon,
thank you for such as it is my gift.
I have made up a morning prayer to you
containing with precision everything that most matters.
'According to Thy will' the thing begins.
It took me off & on two days. It does not aim at eloquence.
You have come to my rescue again & again
in my impassable, sometimes despairing years.
You have allowed my brilliant friends to destroy themselves
and I am still here, severely damaged but functioning.
Unknowable, as I am unknown to my guinea pigs:
how can I 'love' you?
I only as far as gratitude & awe
confidently & absolutely go.
I have no idea whether we live again.
It doesn't seem likely
from either the scientific or the philosophical point of view
but certainly all things are possible to you,
and I believe as fixedly in the Resurrection-appearances to Peter & to Paul
as I believe I sit in this blue chair.
Only that may have been a special case
to establish their initiatory faith.
– John Berryman (Love & Fame, 1970)
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| attributed to Jean Lepautre Frieze of Mythological Creatures from an Antique Relief before 1682 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Wilhelm Marstrand Double Portrait of artists E.F. Kloss and G. Pellicia ca. 1836-40 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Giovanni Balducci Study of a Youth before 1631 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Académie ca. 1618-24 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Simon-François Ravenet the Younger Académie ca. 1780 drawing British Museum |
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| Pierre-Ernest Prins Manet on his Deathbed ca. 1883 drawing (charcoal and pastel) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edgar Degas Study of Two Dancers ca. 1890 drawing (charcoal and pastel) Musée Fin de Siècle, Brussels |