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| Anonymous French painter Portrait of a noblewoman 1560s oil on panel Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm |
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| Frans Floris Fall of Man ca. 1560 oil on panel Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden |
ANCHISES TO AENEAS IN THE UNDERWORLD
Each one of us our penaunce here abides, than sent we bee
To Paradise at last, we few these fieldes of joy do see:
Till compass long of time, by perfit course, hath purged quight
Our former cloddrid spots, and simple sparkes of heavenly light.
Then all, when they a thousand yeeres that wheele have turned about,
To drinke of Lethee flood, by clusters great, God calls them out,
That these forgetting all their former lives, and former sin,
The mortall world afresh in bodies new they may begin.
– from Book 6 of the Aeneid of Virgil, this translation by Thomas Phaër composed before 1560 but not published until 1584
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| Frans Floris Pomona 1564-65 oil on canvas Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm |
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| Steven van der Meulen Portrait of a woman probably Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys 1562 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Marco Marchetti Annunciation ca. 1565-75 oil on panel Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena |
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| Titian The Tribute Money ca. 1560-68 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Jacopo Bassano The Good Samaritan ca. 1562-63 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Paolo Veronese Consecration of St Nicholas 1562 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Nicolas Neufchâtel Portrait of a young lady ca. 1561 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
THE DEATH OF DIDO
Speedelye bring me water, thee greene wound swiftlye toe souple;
And yf in her carcasse soom wind yeet softley be breathing,
With lip I will nurse yt: thus sayd shee climbd toe the woodpile,
Claspt in her arms bracing thee panting murtheres haulf-quick,
With grunt wyde gasping: thee blackned gellyeblud, hardning,
Shee skums with napkins; shee would have lifted her eyebal,
Feeble agayne weixing shee droups; thee deadlye push yrcks her.
Thrise she did endevoure, too mount and rest on her elbow;
Thrise to her bed sliding shee quayls, with whirligig eyesight
Up to the sky staring, with belling skrichcrye she roareth,
When she the desyred soonbeams with faynt eye receaved.
– from Book 4 of the Aeneid of Virgil, this translation by Richard Stanyhurst (1547-1618), first published in 1582
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| Steven van der Meulen Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester before 1564 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Portrait of Doge Pietro Loredano 1567-70 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Giorgio Vasari Storming of the Fortress of Stampace in Pisa 1568-71 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Giorgio Vasari Rout of the Pisans at Torre San Vincenzo 1568-71 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Hans Vredeman de Vries Architectural caprice with figures 1568 oil on panel Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |