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| workshop of Domenico Fetti Lazarus & the Rich Man ca 1618-28 National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
"Beside other things therfore it giveth a great praise to the world, in saying that it is beautifull. It is praysed, in saying, the beautifull heaven, beautifull earth, beautifull sea, beautifull rivers, beauitfull woodes, trees, gardens, beautifull cities, beautifull churches, houses, armies. In conclusion this comely and holy beautie is a wondrous setting out of everie thing. And it may bee saide, that Good and beautifull be after a sorte one selfe thing, especially in the bodies of men: of the beautie whereof the nighest cause (I suppose) is the beautie of the soule: the which as a partner of the right and heavenly beauty, maketh sightly and beautifull what ever she toucheth, and most of all, if the bodie, where she dwelleth, be not of so vile a matter, that she can not imprint in it her propertie."
– from The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione, translated into English and published by Sir Thomas Hoby in 1561
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| Pietro Paolini Achilles among theDaughters of Lycomedes ca. 1625-30 Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Tobias Curing his Father's Blindness ca. 1630-35 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Leonello Spada Concert ca. 1615 Louvre |
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| Andrea Sacchi St Francis Marrying Poverty 1633 Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Andrea Sacchi The Three Magdalenes 1634 Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Andrea Sacchi Venus at rest 17th century Hermitage |
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| Andrea Sacchi Vision of St Romuald ca. 1631 Vatican Pinacoteca |
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| Viviano Codazzi St Peters 1636 Prado |
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| Federico Barocci Christ on the Cross 1604 Prado |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Peter and John at the Tomb with an Angel mid 17th century Prado |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Sacrifice of Polyxena 1630s Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Apollo and Marsyas 1655-58 vaulting fresco, Louvre |
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| Pietro della Vecchia Socrates and two students 17th century Prado |