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| Pietro Vannucci Four male figures ca. 1505 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Giulio Romano Holy Family with the infant St John the Baptist ca. 1518-23 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Giulio Romano and workshop Two heads from the Massacre of the Innocents ca. 1520-24 tempera on paper, mounted on panel (tapestry cartoon fragment) National Galleries of Scotland |
Renaissance
It is always the Renaissance,
some of us bold and foolish,
some of us pious and bookish,
some of us muleish, raffish, some
of us lacking polish. It is new,
always, no matter what it says
above the doorway, cracked by
the usual irony; it's new anyway.
We can't hold more history than
a handful. What is man
that thou art mindful? Catches,
songs, rhymes, trifles, ditties, a
sphinx in the sand, a statue
in the city, precepts badly
mangled, the good and bad lessons
tangled till no virtue lives
beyond story. Time destroys
precocity, and what so tires
and defeats you now will soon
refresh like novelty. You too
will happily appropriate
Holinshed's Chronicle and
exploit it stylishly.
– Kay Ryan (1986)
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| Anonymous Italian artist after Leonardo da Vinci Madonna of the Yarnwinder ca. 1520-30 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Titian Virgin and sleeping Christ Child ca. 1525-30 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Andrea del Sarto Portrait of Domenico di Jacopo di Matteo, called Becuccio Bicchieraio ca. 1528-30 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Garofalo Christ driving the money-changers from the Temple ca. 1540-50 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Correggio Allegory of Virtue ca. 1550-60 oil on panel (unfinished) National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Tintoretto Christ carried to the tomb ca. 1555-60 oil on canvas (tall altarpiece cut down at top) National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Jacopo Zucchi Minerva at the forge of Vulcan ca. 1560-96 oil on tin National Galleries of Scotland |
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| workshop of Jacopo Bassano Christ driving the money-changers from the Temple ca. 1560-90 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Giorgio Vasari Adoration of the Magi 1566-67 oil on panel National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Giovanni Battista Paggi Rest on the flight into Egypt ca. 1580 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration ca. 1588-90 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |