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| Maerten de Vos The Earth before 1603 oil on canvas Prado, Madrid |
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| Maerten de Vos The Air before 1603 oil on canvas Prado, Madrid |
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| Maerten de Vos Last Supper before 1603 oil on canvas National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
ROMA
Again and again I kiss thy gates at departing
And against our will leave thy holy door-stone,
Praying in tears and with praises
such words as can pierce our tears.
Hear us, Queen, fairest in all the earth, Roma,
Taking post twixt the sky's poles,
Nurse of men! Mother of gods,
do thou hear us.
Even we hymn thee and will, while the Fates can have power.
No guest can forget thee.
It were worse crime than forgetting the sun
If we ceased holding thy honor in heart,
Thou impartial as sunlight to the splash of all outer sea-boards.
All that Apollo over-rides in his quadriga
Hast thou combined into equity:
Many strange folk in one fatherland,
To their good, not seeking to dominate;
Gavest law to the conquered as consorts;
Made city what had been world.
They say that Venus was thy mother, that is by Aeneas,
Mars for father hadst'ou through Romulus,
Making mild armed strength, she in conquest:
One god in two natures;
Joy out of strife by sparing
O'ercamest the sources of terror
In love with all that remains.
– Rutilius Claudius Namatianus was born in Gaul in the late fourth century AD, and held high office at the court of Honorius. His poem of return from Rome, De Reditu Suo, contains a famous tribute to the city, written shortly after its siege and sack by Alaric the Goth in AD 410. This translation was made by Ezra Pound in 1963.
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| Joachim Wtewael Martyrdom of St Sebastian 1600 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Joachim Wtewael Annunciation to the Shepherds 1606 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Hans von Aachen Bacchus, Ceres and Amor ca. 1595-1605 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Joseph and his Brothers ca. 1595-1600 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Stigmatization of St Francis ca. 1600-1601 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Coronation of the Virgin, with St Joseph and St Francis of Assisi ca. 1604-07 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| John de Critz the Elder Portrait of James I of England ca. 1606 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Caravaggio Ecce Homo 1605 oil on canvas Galleria di Palazzo Bianco, Genoa |
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| Caravaggio Crowning with Thorns ca. 1602-04 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Caravaggio Madonna of the Rosary ca. 1605-07 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Battistello Caracciolo Two youths with grapes ca. 1605 oil on panel Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |