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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema (designer) Steinway Piano 1884-87 piano with exotic inlays and applied paintings Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema (designer) Steinway Piano - detail 1884-87 piano with exotic inlays and applied paintings Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema (designer) Steinway Piano - detail 1884-87 piano with exotic inlays and applied paintings Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema (designer) Armchair 1884-87 exotic woods, ivory, cotton, silk and other materials National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Pompeo Batoni Triumph of Venice 1737 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Pompeo Batoni Richard Aldworth Neville, later Baron Braybrooke 1773 oil on canvas High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Pompeo Batoni Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1760-70 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie 1769 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Max Beckmann Snake Woman 1921 drypoint Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Max Beckmann Women's Bath 1922 drypoint Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Max Beckmann Still Life with Silver Candlestick 1943 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Max Beckmann Mother and Daughter 1946 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Albrecht Altdorfer Virgin and Child with St Anne preparing the Cradle ca. 1515-20 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Albrecht Altdorfer Foliated Initial S between Balusters ca. 1515-20 woodcut Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Albrecht Altdorfer Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1520-30 engraving National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Albrecht Altdorfer The Resurrection 1518 oil on panel (predella fragment) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from The Sea and the Mirror
[Prospero to Ariel]:
To-day I am free and no longer need your freedom:
You, I suppose, will be off now to look for likely victims;
Crowds chasing ankles, lone men stalking glory,
Some feverish young rebel among amiable flowers
In consultation with his handsome envy,
A punctual plump judge, a fly-weight hermit in a dream
Of gardens that time is for ever outside –
To lead absurdly by their self-important noses.
Are you malicious by nature? I don't know.
Perhaps only incapable of doing nothing or of
Being by yourself, and, for all your wry faces,
May secretly be anxious and miserable without
A master to need you for the work you need.
Are all your tricks a test? If so, I hope you find, next time,
Someone in whom you cannot spot the weakness
Through which you will corrupt him with your charm. Mine you did
And me you have: thanks to us both, I have broken
Both of the promises I made as an apprentice –
To hate nothing and to ask nothing for its love.
All by myself I tempted Antonio into treason;
You, I suppose, will be off now to look for likely victims;
Crowds chasing ankles, lone men stalking glory,
Some feverish young rebel among amiable flowers
In consultation with his handsome envy,
A punctual plump judge, a fly-weight hermit in a dream
Of gardens that time is for ever outside –
To lead absurdly by their self-important noses.
Are you malicious by nature? I don't know.
Perhaps only incapable of doing nothing or of
Being by yourself, and, for all your wry faces,
May secretly be anxious and miserable without
A master to need you for the work you need.
Are all your tricks a test? If so, I hope you find, next time,
Someone in whom you cannot spot the weakness
Through which you will corrupt him with your charm. Mine you did
And me you have: thanks to us both, I have broken
Both of the promises I made as an apprentice –
To hate nothing and to ask nothing for its love.
All by myself I tempted Antonio into treason;
However that could be cleared up; both of us know
That both were in the wrong, and neither need by sorry:
That both were in the wrong, and neither need by sorry:
But Caliban remains my impervious disgrace.
We did it, Ariel, between us; you found on me a wish
For absolute devotion; result – his wreck
That sprawls in the weeds and will not be repaired:
My dignity discouraged by a pupil's curse,
I shall go knowing and incompetent into my grave.
We did it, Ariel, between us; you found on me a wish
For absolute devotion; result – his wreck
That sprawls in the weeds and will not be repaired:
My dignity discouraged by a pupil's curse,
I shall go knowing and incompetent into my grave.
– W.H. Auden (1942-44)