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Anonymous Italian Painter
Still Life with Animal Skulls, Fruit and Sculpture
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Anonymous Italian Painter
Capitan Babbeo and Cucuba, from the Commedia dell'Arte
ca. 1790-1810
oil on canvas
Museo del Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Anonymous Italian Painter
Salvator Mundi with Saints Vincent Ferrer, Augustine, Helena and Francis of Assisi
1469
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Anonymous Italian Painter
Portrait of natural historian Ulisse Aldrovandi
ca. 1580-1600
oil on canvas
(gift of Sir Hans Sloane as by Giorgione)
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Painter
The Virgin and St Joseph traveling to visit St Elizabeth
18th century
oil on panel
Chiesa della Madonna del Soccorso, Montalcino

Anonymous Italian Painter
The Visitation
18th century
oil on panel
Chiesa della Madonna del Soccorso, Montalcino

Anonymous Italian Painter working in Venice
Orpheus
ca. 1515
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Italian Painter
St Anthony of Padua reading
ca. 1450-75
tempera and gold on panel
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Painter after Bernardo Strozzi
Portrait of Giulio Strozzi
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Painter
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1580
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Mus'a al Canopoleno, Sassari

Anonymous Italian Painter after Fra Bartolomeo
Holy Family
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Painter
Boy with Flageolet
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Painter after etching by Pietro Testa
The Triumph of Painting
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Anonymous Italian Painter working in Florence
The Eritrean Sibyl
16th century
detached fresco
Casa Buonarroti, Florence

Anonymous Italian Painter
Virgin and Child with Angel Musicians
ca. 1450-1500
oil on panel (altarpiece)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Painter after Guido Reni
 Europa and the Bull
17th century
oil on canvas
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Anonymous Italian Painter
Portrait of a Youth
ca. 1517-20
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

from Argument

    For those who grow by division; for those who protest their innocence; for those who decline to die,

            O Blue Boar, hear us.

    For those who borrow and for those who lend, for those who are shunned on the towpath; for those regarded in their households as saints,

            O Swan with the Two Necks, hear us.

    For sunbathers; for those who dress soberly; for those who expect to be respected, and for those who have been taught to adore,

            O White Horse, hear us.

    For those determined to suffer; for those who believe they can control the weather,

            O Jack Straw from your Castle, hear us. 

– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)