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| Carlo Francesco Nuvolone Portrait of a Lady ca. 1647-49 oil on canvas Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna |
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| Carlo Francesco Nuvolone Portrait of a Gentleman 1650s oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Oriental Warrior 1650 oil on canvas Louvre |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Gentleman with a Sword ca. 1615 oil on canvas private collection |
Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that there can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.
– John Donne, from The First Anniversary, published 1611
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| Daniele Crespi Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1625 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Tanzio da Varallo St Jerome 1624-26 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Arachne ca. 1628-33 oil on panel private collection |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Self-portrait ca. 1623 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Antonio Franchi Personification of Music as St Cecilia ca. 1650 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Bernardino Mei Vision of St Jerome ca. 1657-60 oil on canvas private collection |
At the round Earth's imagined corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.
– John Donne, from Sonnet VII, published 1633
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| Domenico Fetti Parable of the Sower ca. 1622 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Salvator Rosa River landscape with Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl ca. 1655 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Ferraù Fenzoni St Francis receiving the Stigmata, supported by an Angel ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Gregorio de Ferrari Poetic Fantasy ca. 1689 oil on canvas Palazzo Rosso, Genoa |