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| Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Kissing the Relic 1893 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
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| Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Clotilde García del Castillo contemplating the Venus de Milo ca. 1897-98 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia |
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| Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Eighteenth-century Figures cavorting near a Fountain ca. 1900 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia |
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| Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Académie 1884 oil on canvas (painted in Rome) Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia |
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| Peter Paul Rubens after Michelangelo Leda and the Swan 1601 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Bath of Diana ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Peter Paul Rubens The Entombment ca. 1600-1608 drawing (study for lost painting) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Peter Paul Rubens St Teresa of Avila - the Vision of the Dove ca. 1612-14 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pablo Picasso Picasso, his Work, and his Audience 1968 etching Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pablo Picasso Still Life with Glass under Lamp 1962 linocut Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pablo Picasso Portrait of Jacqueline 1962 linocut Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Pablo Picasso Head of Faun 1962 linocut Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Wouter van Riessen Self Portrait 1997 Lambda-print on aluminum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Wouter van Riessen Self Portrait 1998 Lambda-print on aluminum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Wouter van Riessen Self Portrait 2000 Lambda-print on aluminum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Wouter van Riessen Self Portrait 1998 Lambda-print on aluminum Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Brooding Likeness
I was born in the month of the bull,
the month of heaviness,
or of the lowered, the destructive head,
or of purposeful blindness. So I know, beyond the shadowed
patch of grass, the stubborn one, the one who doesn't look up,
still senses the rejected world. It is
a stadium, a well of dust. And you who watch him
looking down in the face of death, what do you know
of commitment? If the bull lives
one controlled act of revenge, be satisfied
that in the sky, like you, he is always moving,
not of his own accord but through the black field
like grit caught on a wheel, like shining freight.
– Louise Glück (1985)