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| Alec Soth Charles, Vasa MN 2003 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Paul Wunderlich Figure against Black before 1970 lithograph Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| August Sander Paul Hindemith 1926 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| John Singer Sargent Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ca. 1913 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Félicien Rops Seated Peasant wearing cast-off Tailcoat before 1898 drawing British Museum |
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| John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Night 1878 oil on panel Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Thomas Rowlandson after Joshua Reynolds Emily Potts as Thais before 1827 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| George Romney Sketch of a Woman before 1790 drawing British Museum |
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| Thomas Stothard Allegorical Figure ca. 1775 drawing British Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Schönfeld Allegorical Figure of Summer ca. 1680 drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Study of Draped Woman in Motion ca. 1655 drawing British Museum |
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| Raffaello Vanni Study of Kneeling Woman ca. 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Ventura Salimbeni Study of a Monk ca. 1610 drawing British Museum |
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| Raffaello Schiaminossi Persian Sibyl 1609 etching British Museum |
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| workshop of Bartholomeus Spranger St Paul ca. 1600-1625 drawing British Museum |
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| Hans Schäufelein Landsknecht ca. 1507-1508 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Marco Zoppo Study of Bound Figure before 1478 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
from Of the Answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos to Croesus King of Lydia
Sometime more beholding unto memorie than invention, hee delighted to expresse himself in the bare verses of Homer; but that hee principally affected poetrie, and the preists not only nor allwayes composed his prosall deliveries into verse, seemes plaine from his necromanticall prophecyes. The dead head in Phlegon delivers a long prediction in verse, and at the raysing of the ghost of Commodus unto Caracalla, when none of his ancestors would speake, the divining spirit versified his infelicitie; herin complying unto the apprehension of elder times, which conceaved not only a majestie, butt something of divinitie in poetrie; and wherin the old Theologians delivered their inventions.
Critical considerators might looke for rare poetrie, and expect in his oraculous verses a more than ordinarie strayne and high spirit of Apollo; nor bee content to find that spirits make verses like men, beating upon filling epithites, nor omitting the licence of Dialects and lower helpes common unto human poetrie; wherin since Scaliger, who hath scarce spared any of the Greek poets, hath thought it wisdome to bee silent, wee shall make no animadversion.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)