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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Classical landscape with nymphs 1647 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Ruins of the Aurelian Walls, Rome before 1657 drawing with watercolor National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Stoning of Stephen in classical landscape 1632 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Long Lines
By night the day survives by night, outlasts its end,
Becomes what cannot be broken; for day in dreams
Is no longer day but dreams, incessant language,
Interminable light.
We sleep, we dream: a constant allusion, a kind
Of perilous appeal, by the persistence of
What cannot end, to whatever bulks and bulges
Behind the beginning.
We sleep, we dream we summon up the person – no,
The Being – of that first time, not the child only
But beyond the child, further, some vague myth: we dream
The void that came before.
The dreamer sleeps, but already knows in his dream
He is not the sleeper, is no one who can say
I am dreaming. For this is the realm, the region
Where pure resemblance reigns.
Here all is seeming, each figure the figure of
Another. Waking, we look for the model, seek
Originals. We want to be sent back, referred
To a point of departure,
The outset, an initial revelation, but
There is none. Our dream is semblance and returns us
To semblance, like unto like. There is no one here,
There is the dream, endless
– Richard Howard, from Findings (New York: Atheneum, 1971)
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Temple of the Tiburtine Sibyl at Tivoli 1627 drawing Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Martyrdom of St Lawrence in classical landscape 1647 oil on panel Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Colosseum, Rome before 1657 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Classical landscape with Christ and disciples on the road to Emmaus 1632 oil on panel National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Capriccio of Roman ruins before 1657 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Coastal landscape with Balaam and the Ass 1634 oil on panel National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Roman landscape with ruins before 1657 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Ruins 1630 drawing with watercolor National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Ruins of Baths of Diocletian, Rome before 1657 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Ruins of a castle on a hill ca. 1625 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Jacob Adriaensz Backer Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh 1644 oil on canvas Amsterdam Museum |