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| Samuel Palmer (England) The Furze Field ca. 1850 watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Oswald Achenbach (Germany) Monastery Garden 1857 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-François Millet (France) Peasant Women carrying Brushwood ca. 1852 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from Canto XLVII
The light has entered the cave. Io! Io!
The light has gone down into the cave,
Spendour on splendour!
By prong have I entered these hills:
That the grass grew from my body,
That I hear the roots speaking together,
The air is new on my leaf,
The forked boughs shake with the wind.
Is Zephyrus more light on the bough, Apeliota
more light on the almond branch?
By this door have I entered the hill.
Falleth,
Adonis falleth.
– Ezra Pound
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| Gustave Courbet (France) Landscape with Dead Horse ca. 1855-60 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Baptiste van Moer (Belgium) Painter's studio 1854 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (France) Reading a Letter 1852 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Franz Xavier Winterhalter (Germany) Portrait of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna 1856 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Max Emanuel Ainmiller (Germany) Interior of a Church 1859 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Léon Gérôme (France) Duel after a Masked Ball 1857 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Horace Vernet (France) Angel of Death 1851 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-François Millet (France) Death and the Woodcutter 1858-59 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| August Allebé (Netherlands) Child studying 1855 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Joseph Lauer (Austria) Bouquet with Snail ca. 1850 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Paul Lacroix (USA) Abundance of Summer 1850s oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |