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| Sam Taylor-Wood Soliloquy IV 1998 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Joseph Cornell Yellow Sand Tray with Starfish ca. 1952 wood, glass, found objects, sand National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pavel Tchelitchew Head 1951 crayon on black paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| workshop of Corneille de Lyon Portrait of Jean de Brosse, duc d'Etampes ca. 1550 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Philip Pearlstein Two Models, One Seated 1966 oil on canvas Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Sam Taylor-Wood Soliloquy II 1998 C-print Tate Modern, London |
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| Joseph Cornell Variétés Apollinaris 1953 wood, glass, printed paper, found objects National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pavel Tchelitchew Interior Landscape 1949 crayon on black paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| workshop of Corneille de Lyon Portrait of Mellin de Saint-Gelais, abbé de Reclus 1534 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled 1985 etching Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Sam Taylor-Wood Untitled 1999 C-print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Cornell Sand Fountain 1948 wood, glass, printed paper, found objects, sand National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pavel Tchelitchew Head 1949 crayon on black paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Corneille de Lyon Portrait of Charles II de Valois, duc d'Orléans ca. 1540 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Philip Pearlstein Two Nudes with Oak Stool and Canvas 1976 lithograph Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Minor White San Francisco 1948 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Irving Penn Three Poppies, Arab Chief, New York 1969 dye transfer print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Duke of Buckingham
In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung,
The floor of plaster, and the walls of dung,
On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw,
With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw,
The George and Garter dangling from that bed
Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red,
Great Villiers lies – alas, how changed from him,
That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim!
– Alexander Pope, from the Essay on Man (1733)