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| Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Flanders) Portrait of Maria Virginia Borghese-Chigi ca. 1675 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands) Self-portrait 1887 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"How did Achilles take on for Patroclus' departure! A black cloud of sorrows overshadowed him, saith Homer. Jacob rent his clothes, put sackcloth about his loins, sorrowed for his son a long season, and could not be comforted, but would needs go down into the grave unto his son. Many years after, the remembrance of such friends, of such accidents, is most grievous unto us, to see or hear of it, though it concerns not ourselves but others. Scaliger saith of himself that he never read Socrates' death in Plato's Phaedo but he wept; Austin shed tears when he read the destruction of Troy. But howsoever this passion of sorrow be violent, bitter, and seizeth familiarly on wise, valiant, discreet men, yet it may surely be withstood, it may be diverted. For what is there in this life, that it should be so dear unto us? or that we should so much deplore the departure of a friend? The greatest pleasures are common society, to enjoy one another's presence, feasting, hawking, hunting, brooks, woods, hills, music, dancing, etc.; all this is but vanity and loss of time, as I have sufficiently declared."
– from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, first published in 1621
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| Pietro Torrigiano (Florence) Portrait-bust of King Henry VII ca. 1509-1511 painted terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Robert Thoburn (Scotland) Miniature-portrait Marquess of Waterford 1840 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Relief-bust of Marie-Antoinette ca. 1850 porcelain British Museum |
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| Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Relief-bust of Louis XVI ca. 1850 porcelain British Museum |
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| Roman Empire Relief-bust of a young man AD 130-140 bronze British Museum |
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| Roman Empire Head of Demeter AD 30-180 marble British Museum |
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| Roman Empire Head of Apollo 1st-2nd century AD marble British Museum |
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| Dirk Jacobsz (Netherlands) Portrait of Pompeius Occo ca. 1531 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pier Francesco Foschi (Florence) Portrait of a lady ca. 1540-65 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Venice) Actress in the role of Diana ca. 1730-50 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Alexander Cooper (England) Miniature-portrait possibly of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ca. 1628-30 watercolor on vellum Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Henry Shaw (England) copy after the Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth I by Isaac Oliver at Hatfield House ca. 1820-1870 hand-colored aquatint Royal Collection, Great Britain |