Paulus Moreelse Flute Player 1636 oil on panel Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg |
Valentin de Boulogne Apollo disguised as a Shepherd ca. 1630 oil on canvas High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Antoine Le Nain The Village Piper 1642 oil on copper Detroit Institute of Arts |
Hendrik Goltzius The Muse Euterpe 1592 engraving Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Jan de Bray King David in Procession, bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem ca. 1670 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
Cola dell'Amatrice King David making Music for the Lord ca. 1510 tempera on panel Princeton University Art Museum |
Gino Severini Harlequin 1922 gouache on paper Yale University Art Gallery |
Giacomo Ceruti (il Pitocchetto) Portrait of a Cellist ca. 1745-50 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Antiveduto Grammatica The Theorbo Player ca. 1612 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
Gerrit van Honthorst Merry Group behind a Balustrade ca. 1623-24 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Franz Joseph Degle Self Portrait 1778 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
Dirck van Baburen The Concert ca. 1623 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi Country Scene ca. 1720 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
William Morris Hunt Portrait of Ellen M. Brown 1874 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Cosimo Gamberucci St Cecilia ca. 1605-1620 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Crociani, Museo Civico, Montepulciano |
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Study for Orpheus ca. 1870-74 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
Seven paters seven times,
Send Mary by her Son,
Send Bridget by her mantle,
Send God by His strength,
Between us and the faery host,
Between us and the demons of the air.
Between us and the demons of the air.
– W.B. Yeats (1897)