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| Paolo Veronese Adoration of the Magi 1570s oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Johann Rottenhammer Adoration of the Magi ca. 1596 oil on copper Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Carlo Saraceni Paradise ca. 1598 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Elegia 6 In mortem psittaci
The Parrat from east India to me sent,
Is dead, al-fowles her exequies frequent.
Go goodly birds, striking your breasts bewaile,
And with rough clawes your tender cheekes assaile.
For woefull haires let piece-torne plumes abound,
For long shrild trumpets let your notes resound.
Dead is that speaking image of man's voice,
The Parrat given me, the farre world's best choice.
The greedy spirits take the best things first,
Supplying their voide places with the worst.
Elysium hath a wood of holme trees black,
Whose earth doth not perpetuall greene-grasse lacke,
There good birds rest (if we beleeve things hidden)
Whence uncleane fowles are said to be forbidden.
There harmelesse Swans feed all abroad the river,
There lives the Phoenix one alone bird ever.
There Juno's bird displayes his gorgious feather,
And loving Doves kisse eagerly together.
The Parrat into wood receiv'd with these,
Turnes all the goodly birdes to what she please.
A grave her bones hides, on her corps great grave,
The little stones these little verses have –
This tombe approoves, I pleasde my mistresse well,
My mouth in speaking did all birds excell.
– from the Elegies of Ovid, translated by Christopher Marlowe (1570s)
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| Giovanni Battista Cremonini Agony in Garden ca. 1595 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger Sufferings of Christ 1590s oil on copper private collection |
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| Bartolomeo Passerotti Holy Family ca. 1572 oil on copper private collection |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee ca. 1596 oil on copper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Adam Elsheimer St Christopher carrying the Christ Child 1598-99 oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Ludovico Carracci St Francis in Meditation 1580-85 oil on copper Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Annibale Carracci Temptation of St Anthony Abbot 1597-98 oil on copper National Gallery, London |
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| Annibale Carracci Burial of Christ 1595 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacopo Zucchi Coral Fishers ca. 1585 oil on copper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Alessandro Allori Allegory of Human Life (after drawing by Michelangelo) ca. 1570-90 oil on copper Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger Vulcan and Maia ca. 1575-80 oil on copper Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |