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| Roloff Beny Giovanni da Nola's Tomb of Don Pedro da Toledo in San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli, Naples (detail) before 1966 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Roloff Beny Giovanni da Nola's Tomb of Don Pedro da Toledo in San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli, Naples (detail) before 1966 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Roloff Beny Donatello's Statue of Mary Magdalen in the Baptistry, Duomo, Florence (detail) before 1966 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Roloff Beny Verrocchio's Statue of the victorious David in the Bargello, Florence before 1966 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) Abduction of Dejanira by the Centaur Nessus before 1561 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) after Giulio Romano Scipio pardoning Prisoners ca. 1550 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) The Calumny of Apelles before 1561 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) Philistines placing the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple of Dagon ca. 1540 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| El Greco The Annunciation ca. 1596-1600 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
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| El Greco Christ healing the Blind (with Farnese portraits among bystanders) ca. 1570 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| El Greco Christ healing the Blind (with Farnese portraits among bystanders) ca. 1573 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| El Greco Holy Family with St Anne and young St John the Baptist ca. 1595-1600 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pablo Picasso Bust 1907-1908 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Pablo Picasso Femme nue de profil 1906 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1906 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Pablo Picasso La Marmite 1907 watercolor on paper Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Now a trolley car comes, going northward. They take it. Emble says:
This tortuous route through town
Was planned, it seems, to serve
Its institutions; for we halt
With a jerk at the Gothic gates
Of the Women's Prison, the whitewashed
Hexagonal Orphanage for
Doomed Children, the driveway,
Bordered with trees in tubs
Of the Orthopædic Hospital,
And are crowded by the close relatives
Of suffering, who sit upright
With little offerings on their laps
Of candy, magazines, comics,
Avoiding each other's eyes,
Shy of a rival shame.
Slums are replaced by suburbs,
Suburbs by tennis-courts, tennis-courts
By greenhouses and vegetable gardens.
The penultimate stop is the State
Asylum, a large Palladian
Edifice in acres of grounds
Surrounded by iron railings;
And now there is no one left
For the final run through the fields
But ourselves whose diseases as yet
Are undiagnosed, and the driver
Who is anxious to get home to his tea.
The buttercups glitter, our bell
Clangs loudly; and the lark's
Song is swallowed up in
The blazing blue: we are set
Down and do not care
Very much but wonder why.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)