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| Federico Zandomeneghi Singing Lesson 1890 oil on canvas Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan |
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| Thérèse Lessore Man singing to Accompaniment 1920 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Philippe Halsman Marian Anderson 1945 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
| Anonymous French Sculptor Three Angels singing the Gloria (fragment of Nativity scene) ca. 1467 painted stone Musée du Louvre |
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| Hendrick ter Brugghen The Concert 1629 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Alfred Edward Chalon Opera singer Antonio Tamburlini in Bellini's I Puritani in London 1835 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco Venus playing the Harp (depiction of an actual harp owned by the Barberini) ca. 1630-34 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Rutilio Manetti Music-making by Candlelight before 1639 oil on canvas Palazzo Chigi Saraceni, Siena |
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| Henry Somm Yvette Guilbert singing ca. 1900 gouache on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Sigismondo Caula Concert with Ten Musicians ca. 1685 drawing British Museum |
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| Pietro Longhi Il Concertino 1741 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Annibale Gatti Fête Champêtre 1865 ceiling painting Villa Favard di Rovezzano, Florence |
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| Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli) The Concert 1508 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Jacob Jordaens As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young before 1678 chalk and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Jacques Stella Angelic Chorus in Clouds before 1657 drawing British Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus ca. 1553 detached fresco Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Annie Leibovitz Jessye Norman, New York 1988 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
from Love and Death: Last Lines
Thus much and more; and yet thou lov'st me not,
And never wilt! Love dwells not in our will.
Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot
To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still.
– George Gordon, Lord Byron (1820)






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