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| Frank Auerbach Head of E.O.W. I 1960 oil on panel Tate Modern, London |
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| Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Head of a Woman ca. 1495-97 drawing Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Henry Perronet Briggs Idealized Male Head 1838 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| attributed to Cesare da Sesto Head of a Woman before 1523 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Wilhelm Füssli The Ludovisi Juno (colossal antique head, Palazzo Altemps, Rome) 1863 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek, Zürich |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Study Head ca. 1770 oil on paper, mounted on panel Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
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| Alberto Giacometti Head 1934 bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Charles Dana Gibson Head of a Woman ca. 1905 drawing Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Colossal Head of Persian King 475-400 BC limestone (statue fragment, excavated on Cyprus) Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Joy Hester Head ca. 1955 gouache on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Ambrosius Holbein Head of a Young Man ca. 1517-19 drawing British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Head of a Woman ca. 1909 colored chalk on paper Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Aristide Maillol Head of a Woman 1898 bronze Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| David Park Head 1959 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Head of Bearded Man ca. 1523-25 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman 1957 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Bernardino Poccetti (Bernardino Barbatelli) Winged Head before 1612 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Rufino Tamayo Head of Colossus 1964 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
from The Day of the Eclipse
Summer, until today, burned thought
Away like dross, refined or stunned
Into a life mask golden blind
The face fixed upward with eyes shut;
On either lid a rose-red coin was put;
And upon water rapt and sheer
A single eye of fire held sway;
A single rower just off shore
Could sit becalmed day after day,
A world from oar to dripping oar;
While any one who walked at noon
Upon the mirror of the tide's
Retreat, turned every drunken sun
His bare feet tarnished, to a stepping-stone,
Or, sped by glares from the banked pride
Of light as heel, put dunes between
Himself and town (the wharves, the saltbox inn,
One lamp above its door lit even
In sunshine, like a freethinker in heaven)
And came back with red skies beneath his skin.
Today is different.
Today is different.
– James Merrill (1959)