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| Anonymous Japanese Maker Noh Mask 19th century painted wood Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous European Maker Venus of Capua 19th century marble (adapted from antique model in Naples) Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut |
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| Anonymous Flemish Maker Mary of Burgundy, Archduchess of Austria ca. 1482 bronze relief National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous French Maker Bust Portrait of Woman 18th century colored marbles (adapted from model by Nicolas Cordier) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Ecuadorian Maker Winged Virgin of Quito ca. 1750 painted cedar wood and copper-nickel alloy Denver Art Museum |
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| Anonymous Austrian Maker Virgin of the Immaculate Conception 18th century wax, partially gilt Harvard Art Museums |
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| Anonymous French Maker Virgin and Child Enthroned ca. 1150-1200 carved wood with traces of paint North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Anonymous Guatemalan Maker Archangel Raphael 18th century painted wood Denver Art Museum |
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| Anonymous American Maker St Michael Archangel 19th century painted wood (made in New Mexico) Denver Art Museum |
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| Anonymous Vietnamese Maker Worshiping Celestial AD 1075-1125 sandstone Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Siamese Maker Mythical Serpent 15th century glazed stoneware architectural ornament Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous Japanese Maker Buddhist Deity Achala Vidyaraja AD 950-1050 painted wood Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
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| Anonymous English Maker Bust Portrait of King George II ca. 1757-60 porcelain (formerly owned by William Randolph Hearst) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous French Maker Portrait of Charles IX, King of France 1561 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous French Maker Portrait of Henri II, King of France ca. 1550 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Japanese Maker Head of Buddhist Monk 18th or 19th century painted wood with crystal inset eyes Harvard Art Museums |
Nostos
There was an apple tree in the yard –
this would have been
forty years ago – behind,
only meadow. Drifts
of crocus in the damp grass.
I stood at that window:
late April. Spring
flowers in the neighbor's yard.
How many times, really, did the tree
flower on my birthday,
the exact day, not
before, not after? Substitution
of the immutable
for the shifting, the evolving.
Substitution of the image
for relentless earth. What
do I know of this place,
the role of the tree for decades
taken by a bonsai, voices
rising from the tennis courts –
Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
As one expects of a lyric poet.
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
– Louise Glück (1996)