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| August Ahlborn after Karl Friedrich Schinkel View of the Flowering of Greece (Ahlborn's copy of lost Schinkel original) 1836 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| August Ahlborn after Karl Friedrich Schinkel View of the Flowering of Greece (detail) (Ahlborn's copy of lost Schinkel original) 1836 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| August Ahlborn after Karl Friedrich Schinkel View of the Flowering of Greece (detail) (Ahlborn's copy of lost Schinkel original) 1836 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Karl Friedrich Schinkel Greek Landscape Fantasy with Shepherds among Ruins 1823 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Karl Friedrich Schinkel Greek Landscape Fantasy with Shepherds among Ruins (detail) 1823 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Eduard Daege Invention of Drawing (fable retold by Pliny the Elder) 1832 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Hans Thoma Hercules saving Trojan Princess Hesione from Sea Monster 1890 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Hans Thoma Archery 1887 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Max Klinger Tritons and Naiads ca. 1884-85 oil on panel (study for fresco) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Max Klinger Tritons and Naiads (detail) ca. 1884-85 oil on panel (study for fresco) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Max Klinger Venus in Shell Chariot ca. 1884-85 oil on panel (study for fresco) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Max Klinger Venus in Shell Chariot (detail) ca. 1884-85 oil on panel (study for fresco) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Franz Ludwig Catel Inside the Colosseum, Rome ca. 1823 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Karl Gussow Studio Scene - Washing Venus 1878 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai |
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| Eberhard Wächter Return of Telemachus ca. 1800-1808 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
from Flowers, Always
Inexplicable, the sign outside a deli scrawled
with FLOWERS
and below that: ALWAYS.
But there were no flowers. And I have never
seen an Always. I would like to,
and I have looked.
I have kept my eye keen
for Always, have liked
its idea like an expensive purse, coveting it as
it appears,
riding the arms of rich ladies who are
so very lady. I've rolled on velvet
cushions where I heard Always slept,
and I once tried to kiss Always,
but I don't think it was the Always
I was looking for.
– Cate Marvin (2007)