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| Anonymous French Artist Wreathed Head of Woman ca. 1725 terracotta Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Augustijn Claterbos Head Study (with marked proportions) ca. 1780 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Richard Cooper Head of Bearded Man (fragment) 1759 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Gilles Demarteau after Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre after Raphael Head of Dead Soldier ca. 1760 engraving Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Head of a Woman ca. 1770 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Agostino Masucci Head of Bearded Man ca. 1740 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Head of a Young Man ca. 1730-50 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel Man in Feathered Hat 1773 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Balthasar Denner Portrait of an Elderly Man ca. 1720 oil on copper Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Michael Dahl Head of a Man ca. 1720 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| François Boucher after Jean-Antoine Watteau Head of a Man wearing a Mask ca. 1720 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Benigno Bossi Head of a Man ca. 1775 etching Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pompeo Batoni Anatomical Study - Face in Profile ca. 1730 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| John Skippe after Parmigianino Head of an Old Man 1781 chiaroscuro woodcut Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Head of a Young Man ca. 1750 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Head of Magus ca. 1762 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
from The Magus
the magic leached nightly from his fingertips
so that now his incantation for a storm
brought only a slight breeze,
a quick sun shower that frightened
only the flowers struggling in the salt air.
Now, showing his centuries, he insists:
This is the wind out of which I bring clouds.
These are my hands that gnarled though they be
when lifted to the sky bring rain.
– C. Dale Young (2001)