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| Giotto St Francis preaching to the Birds ca. 1297-99 tempera on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Meindert Hobbema The Cottage ca. 1663 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Albert Flamen Vue de Conflan du côté d'Ivry before 1669 etching British Museum |
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| Louis-Gustave Taraval after Louis Bosse Stove Design for an Orangerie ca. 1791 hand-colored etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Jean-Louis Demarne The Seine at Saint-Cloud ca. 1795 oil on canvas Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh |
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| Cornelius Varley Pastoral Landscape with Figure ca. 1830 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Alexandre Calame Summer 1850 oil on canvas Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Linnaeus Tripe Umbrella Tree near Trimium 1858 albumen print from waxed paper negative Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Robert Swain Gifford Near the Coast 1885 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Robert Swain Gifford Near the Coast 1886 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Emily K. Herron Untitled before 1893 cyanotype Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Arthur Dove Barge, Trees, Silver Ball 1930 oil on board Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Vance Kirkland Timberline Abstraction 1950 oil on linen Denver Art Museum |
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| Brett Weston Banyan Roots 1973 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Mitch Epstein Biloxi, Mississippi 2005 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Andrew Moore Cucumber Tree Magnolia 2006 inkjet print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Yuichiro Sato In the Air III: Birch Tree 2019 acrylic on paper British Museum |
Paragraphs from Blake's MS. Book concerning his picture
of The Last Judgment, a picture now lost
The Last Judgment is not Fable or Allegory, but Vision. Fable or Allegory are a totally distinct & interior kind of Poetry. Vision of Imagination is a Representation of what Eternally Exists, Really & Unchangeably. Fable or Allegory is Form'd by the daughters of Memory. Imagination is Surrounded by the daughters of Inspiration, who in the aggregate are call'd Jerusalem. Fable is Allegory, but what Critics call the Fable, is Vision itself. The Hebrew Bible & the Gospel of Jesus are not Allegory, but Eternal Vision, or Imagination of All that Exists.
Note here that Fable or Allegory is seldom without some Vision. Pilgrim's Progress is full of it, the Greek Poets the same, but Allegory & Vision ought to be known as Two Distinct Things, & so call'd for the Sake of Eternal Life.
The Last Judgment is one of those Stupendous Visions. I have represented it as I saw it; to different People it appears differently as every thing else does; for tho' on Earth things seem Permanent, they are less permanent than a Shadow, as we all know too well.
– William Blake (ca. 1818)