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| Bernardino Mei Story of Judas Maccabeus before 1676 oil on canvas (grisaille) Chiesa di Santa Maria di Provenzano, Siena |
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| Domenico Antonio Vaccaro Solomon worshipping a Pagan God 1695-1700 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Creation of Adam 17th century oil on canvas Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
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| Pietro Bianchi Tobias restoring his Father's Sight before 1740 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gaspare Diziani Lot and his Daughters before 1767 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gaspare Diziani Susanna and the Elders before 1767 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well ca. 1759-60 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Marcantonio Franceschini Joseph and Potiphar's Wife before 1729 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Antonio Molinari David and Abigail before 1704 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio Molinari Esther before Ahasuerus before 1704 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio Molinari Worship of the Golden Calf before 1704 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Antonio Molinari Samson carrying the Gates of Gaza before 1704 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Antonio Molinari Tobias restoring his Father's Sight before 1704 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Susanna and the Elders before 1780 drawing, with watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Achille-Etna Michallon after Michelangelo Adam from the Sistine Ceiling ca. 1817-18 drawing (colored chalks) Musée du Louvre |
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| Achille-Etna Michallon after Michelangelo Adam from the Sistine Ceiling ca. 1817-18 drawing (colored chalks) Musée du Louvre |
from Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice
So I'm an alcoholic Catholic mother-lover
yet there is no sweetish nectar no fuzzed-peach
thing no song sing but in the word
which I'm starlessly unreachably faithful
you, pedant & you, politically righteous & you, alive
you think you can peel my sober word apart from my drunken word
my Buddhist word apart from my white sugar Thérèse word my
word to comrade from my word to my mother
but all my words are one word my lives one
my last to first wound round in finally fiberless crystalline skein
– Alice Notley (ca. 1980)