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| Paolo Veronese Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1580 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
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| Bartolomeo Passerotti Coronation of the Virgin with St Luke, St Dominic and St John the Evangelist ca. 1580 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Cornelis Ketel A Giant Porter 1580 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Joos van Winghe Delilah’s Betrayal and Samson’s Imprisonment by the Philistines ca. 1580 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Pedro de Rubiales (known as Roviale Spagnolo) Battle of Zama 1580-82 fresco Musei Capitolini, Rome |
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| Joris Hoefnagel Seashells and view of Cadiz 1580 watercolor on vellum Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
Calm after Storm
Now are the threats of cruel sword laid down,
And now the rumour whists of battles sown,
The noise of crooked trumpet silent lies,
And quiet peace returns to joyful town.
So, when the waves of swelling surge arise,
While Corus' wind the Brutian seas doth smight,
And Scylla sounds from hollow caves within,
And shipmen are with wafting waves affright,
Charybdis casts that erst it had drunk in;
And Cyclops fierce his father yet doth dread,
In Etna bank, that fervent is with heats,
Lest quenched be with waves that overshed
The fire, that from eternal furnace beats;
And poor Laertes thinks his kingdoms all
May drowned be, and Ithaca doth quake.
If once the force of winds begin to fall,
The sea li'th down more mild than standing lake;
The deep, where ships so wide full dreadfull were
To pass, with sails on either side outspread,
Now fall'n a-down, the lesser boats doth bear;
And leisure is, to view the fishes dead
Even there where late, with tempest beat upon,
The shaken Cyclads were with seas aghast.
No state endures. The pain and pleasure, one
To other yields; and joys be soonest past.
– from Seneca's tragedy of Thyestes, translated by Jasper Heywood and published in 1581 in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies
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| Luca Cambiaso The Visitation ca. 1580 drawing Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Federico Barocci Calling of St Andrew 1583 drawing (modello for altarpiece) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Maerten de Vos Allegory of the Choleric Temperament 1583 drawing Cantor Center, Stanford University |
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| Bernardino Campi Virgin with Dead Christ and Saints before 1584 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Annibale Carracci Young man drawing ca. 1585-90 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Hans von Aachen Portrait of the painter Josef Heintz 1585 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| El Greco St Francis receiving the Stigmata ca. 1585-90 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Tommaso Laureti Battle of Lake Regillus 1587-94 fresco Musei Capitolini, Rome |