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Herri met de Bles Landscape with Forge ca. 1535 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck Colossus of Rhodes 1572 hand-colored engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Jan de Bisschop View of The Hague from the Northwest ca. 1660-65 ink and watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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Georg Balthasar Outskirts of Amsterdam ca. 1775 hand-colored engraving (peep-show scene) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Antonio Carnicero Ascent of a Balloon in the Presence of the Court of Charles IV of Spain ca. 1783 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain |
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John Sell Cotman Mousehold Heath, Norwich 1810 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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Edward Lear View of Monaco ca. 1864 watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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Jean-Léon Gérôme Prayer in the Mosque 1871 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Vincent van Gogh Landscape with Snow 1888 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Willem Roelofs Landscape near Gouda before 1897 drawing British Museum |
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Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia) La Grande Charmille, Château de Voisins 1936 hand-colored lantern-slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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Sali Herman McElhone Stairs 1944 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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Christo (Christo Javacheff) Running Fence, Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties 1976 collage and mixed media on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Geoffrey James Giardino Storico di Valsanzibio, Villa Barbarigo 1984 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Eric Meola California 1991 C-print (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Andreas Gursky Atlanta 1996 C-print Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Mitch Epstein Century Wind Project - Blairsburg, Iowa 2008 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Madrigal
Like the Idalian queen,
Her hair about her eyne,
With neck and breasts ripe apples to be seen,
At first glance of the morn
In Cyprus garden gathering those fair flowers
Which of her blood were born,
I saw, but fainting saw, my paramours.
The Graces naked danced about the place,
The winds and trees amazed
With silence on her gazed;
The flowers did smile, like those upon her face,
And as their aspen stalks those fingers band,
That she might read my case,
A hyacinth I wished me in her hand.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)