 |
| Vittore Carpaccio Study of Gondolier ca. 1515-20 drawing Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
 |
| Samuel van Hoogstraten Mother at the Cradle ca. 1670 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
 |
| Domenico Maria Canuti Portrait of a Child before 1684 drawing British Museum |
-British-Museum.jpg) |
| Edme Bouchardon Académie ca. 1723-25 drawing (made in Rome) British Museum |
 |
| Canaletto Capriccio with Chiesa di San Simeone Piccolo, Venice ca. 1768 drawing British Museum |
 |
| Wybrand Hendriks Oval Hall in Teylers Museum ca. 1802 oil on panel Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
 |
| Edward Calvert The Lady with the Rooks 1829 engraving National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
 |
| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Mater Dolorosa ca. 1870 marble Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
 |
| Carolus-Duran Portrait of Natalie Barney ca. 1900 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
 |
| Ethel Carrick High Tide at Saint-Malô ca. 1911-12 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
-Composition-no.-15-1925-oil-on-canvas-Tate-Modern-London.jpg) |
| Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Composition no. 15 1925 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
 |
| Jacques Villon Abstract Composition 1932 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
 |
| George Hurrell Rosalind Russell 1935 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
-Ch%C3%A2teau-Vaux-le-Vicomte-Garden-Pool-1936-hand-colored-lantern-slide-Archives-of-American-Gardens-Washington-DC.jpg) |
| Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia) Garden Pool - Château Vaux le Vicomte 1936 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
 |
| Ilya Bolotowsky Abstraction ca. 1940 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
 |
| Giuseppe Capogrossi Superficie 210 1957 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
 |
| Ellen Carey Dings and Shadows 2012 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Paradise Lost
At last his sail-broad vans
He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke
Uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league
As in a cloudy chair ascending rides
Audacious; but that seat soon failing, meets
A vast vacuity: all unawares
Fluttering his penons vain plumb down he drops
Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour
Down had been falling, had not by ill chance
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
Instinct with fire and nitre hurried him
As many miles aloft; that fury stayed
Quenched in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea
Nor good dry land; nigh foundered on he fares,
Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,
Half flying; behooves him now both oar and sail.
As when a gryphon through the wilderness
With wingèd course o'er hill or moory dale
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
Had from hs wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend
O'er bog or steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare,
With head, hands, wings or feet pursues his way,
And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies . . .
– John Milton (1667)