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| Antonis Mor Portrait of a Man ca. 1570 oil on panel North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Antonis Mor Portrait of a Woman 1555 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Antonis Mor Portrait of Margaret of Parma ca. 1562 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Antonis Mor Portrait of Philip II of Spain ca. 1549-50 oil on panel Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
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| John Copley Athletes Dressing 1912 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| John Copley Fog before 1925 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| John Copley Study II: Listening 1914 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| John Copley Two Florentines 1916 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Pablo Picasso Still Life with Mandolin 1927 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Pablo Picasso Pot et Fruits ca. 1908-1909 oil on panel Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Pablo Picasso Still Life 1937 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Pablo Picasso Still Life - Egg-Cup ca. 1923 oil on canvas Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia |
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| Willem van Mieris Lady with a Parrot ca. 1710 oil on panel National Gallery, Athens |
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| Willem van Mieris Portrait of Dina Margareta de Bye 1705 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Willem van Mieris Portrait of Samuel van Acker 1683 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Willem van Mieris The Neglected Lute 1705 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
from Part Three of The Age of Anxiety
Malin sighs and says what they are all thinking but wish they were not.
Again we must digress, go by different
Paths in pairs to explore the land.
Knowing they will never be able to agree as to who shall accompany whom, they cast lots and so it falls out that Rosetta is to go with Quant and Emble with Malin. Two are disappointed, two are disturbed.
Quant mutters:
Again we must digress, go by different
Paths in pairs to explore the land.
Knowing they will never be able to agree as to who shall accompany whom, they cast lots and so it falls out that Rosetta is to go with Quant and Emble with Malin. Two are disappointed, two are disturbed.
Quant mutters:
This bodes badly.
And Malin:
And Malin:
So be it. Who knows
If we wish what we will?
If we wish what we will?
And Rosetta:
Will you forget
If you know that I won't?
And Emble:
Will your need be me?
They depart now, Malin and Emble westward on bicycles, Quant and Rosetta eastward by boat, sad through fair scenes, thinking of another and and talking to themselves.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)