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| Jacopo Bassano Descent from the Cross ca. 1582-84 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jacopo Bassano St Fabian, St Sebastian, St Roch ca. 1565-68 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Niccolò Cassana Nymph and Satyrs 1713 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from Canto XVII
A boat came,
One man holding her sail,
Guiding her with oar caught over gunwale, saying:
'There, in the forest of marble,
the stone trees – out of water –
the arbours of stone –
marble leaf, over leaf,
silver, steel over steel,
silver beaks rising and crossing,
prow set against prow,
stone, ply over ply,
the gilt beams flare of an evening'
Borso, Carmagnola, the men of craft, i vitrei,
Thither, at one time, time after time,
And the waters richer than glass,
Bronze gold, the blaze over the silver,
Dye-pots in the torch-light,
The flash of wave under prows,
And the silver beaks rising and crossing.
Stone trees, white and rose-white in the darkness,
Cypress there by the towers,
Drift under hulls in the night.
– Ezra Pound
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| Andrea Celesti Belshazzar's Feast 1705 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Andrea Celesti Raising of Lazarus ca. 1675 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Antonio Molinari Worship of the Golden Calf before 1704 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giuseppe Angeli Astronomy Lesson ca. 1755 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Annunciation 1724-25 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Coriolanus at the walls of Rome ca. 1730 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Country Promenade 1790s drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Luca Carlevaris Mole and Doges' Palace, Venice ca. 1710 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Palma il Giovane Tarquinius and Lucretia 1590s oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Padovanino Three Graces with Cupids ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| James Anderson Palazzo Dario and Palazzo Orio, Venice ca. 1870 albumen silver print Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |