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| Frans Snyders Concert of Birds 17th century Prado |
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| Frans Snyders Concert of Birds 17th century Prado |
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| Marten Ryckaert Landscape 1616 Prado |
March strongly forth, my Muse, whilst yet the temperate air
Invites us easily on to hasten our repair.
Thou powerful god of flames (in verse divinely great)
Touch my invention so with thy true genuine heat
That high and noble things I slightly may not tell,
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell;
But, as my subject serves, so high or low to strain,
And to the varying earth so suit my varying vein,
That, nature, in my work thou mayst they power avow;
That, as thou first foundst art and didst her rules allow,
So I, to thine own self that gladly near would be,
May herein do the best, in imitating thee.
As thou hast here a hill, a vale there, there a flood,
A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood,
These things so in my song I naturally may show:
Now as the mountain high, then as the valley low;
Here fruitful as the mead, there as the heath be bare;
Then, as the gloomy wood, I may be rough, though rare.
– Michael Drayton, from Poly-Olbion (1612)
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| Denys van Alsloot and Hendrick de Clerck Diana and Actaeon ca. 1608 Prado |
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| Anonymous Flemish painter Landscape with Hunters early 17th century Prado |
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| Isaak van Oosten Landscape with Boats 1650s Prado |
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| Pieter Snayers The Taking of Ypres ca. 1649 Prado |
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| Anonymous Flemish painter Landscape with Gibbet 17th century Prado |
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| Francisque Millet Mercury and Battus 1660s-70s Metropolitan Museum of Art gift of Louisine Havemeyer |
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| Pieter Spierinckx Italian Landscape 17th century Prado |
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| attributed to Pieter de Witte Landscape ca. 1660 drawing British Museum |
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| Tobias Verhaecht Alpine Landscape ca.1600-1615 Prado |
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| David Teniers Archery Contest among Flemish Peasants ca. 1645 Prado |
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| David Teniers Armida before Godfrey of Bouillon ca. 1628-30 Prado |