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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldier ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldier ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Mounted Soldier ca. 1665-73 drawing (study for painting, The Battle of Arbela) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Mounted Soldier ca. 1650-60 drawing (study for painting, Battle of the Milvian Bridge) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Mounted Soldier ca. 1650-60 drawing (study for painting, Battle of the Milvian Bridge) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1685-86 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Salon de la Guerre, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1685-86 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Salon de la Guerre, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Recumbent Figure ca. 1685-86 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Salon de la Guerre, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Draped Woman ca. 1685-86 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Salon de la Guerre, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Recumbent Woman ca. 1685-86 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Salon de la Guerre, Château de Versailles) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldier ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Soldiers ca. 1665-70 drawing Musée du Louvre |
The Struggle
Longing went out from him like a flag
Run up the mast of heavens. Rains were torn
From tremendous downpours. The careening ships
Strode in the chaos of the moral seas.
Everything
Was what it is not.
In the blasts of heavenly conjecture,
Maledictions crashing like tined thunderbolts,
The skies opened as in better centuries;
Mercy appears, white-throated, visionary.
All would
Become what it is not.
Desire was against imperishable death,
A seed-bursting openness, an avenging
Unquenchable archangel, militant, consuming
The ether. Heaven defend the earth. All care
That love
Become what it is not.
– Richard Eberhart (1962)