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Hans Memling Portrait of a Donor ca. 1480 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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Hans Memling Portrait of a Donor ca. 1480 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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Palma il Vecchio Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1510 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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Palma il Vecchio Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1510 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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Hans Wertinger Portrait of Jacoba de Baden, consort of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria 1526 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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Hans Wertinger Portrait of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria 1526 oil on panel Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania |
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Conrad Faber von Creuznach Portrait of Anna von Holzhausen, née Ratzeburg 1535 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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Conrad Faber von Creuznach Portrait of Gilbrecht von Holzhausen 1535 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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Nicholaes Eliasz Pickenoy Portrait of a Lady 1635 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Nicholaes Eliasz Pickenoy Portrait of a Gentleman 1635 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Jan Victors Portrait of a Woman 1650 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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Jan Victors Portrait of a Man 1650 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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Balthasar Denner Three Children of poet Barthold Hinrich Brockes ca. 1720-25 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Balthasar Denner Three Children of poet Barthold Hinrich Brockes ca. 1729 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Johann Georg Ziesenis Portrait of Herzogin Maria Charlotte Amalie von Sachsen, Gotha und Altenburg 1768 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Johann Georg Zieseni Portrait of Herzog Ernst II Ludwig von Sachsen, Gotha und Altenburg 1768 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
from Duets
Underneath, her voice is
a whalebone-and-cambric
arrangement, a set of stiff stays
or pegs, well-hammered-in.
or pegs, well-hammered-in.
She is a house with firm foundations.
Her fabric pulls apart
Her fabric pulls apart
in the upper floors only,
where something can be heard
fluttering with calculated frailty . . .
– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet (2006)