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| Adam Elsheimer Venus and Cupid ca. 1600-1605 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Jacques Stella Martyrdom of St Stephen ca. 1623 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Marten Ryckaert after Paul Bril Landscape with Pan and Syrinx before 1631 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
DO IT AGAIN: Didactic Stanzas
i. Being! Being! the body rants
When pain is the color of certain events:
Surely it's better to scream "I suffer"
Than say "This landscape is ugly."
ii. Comes a time, in the dead of doubt,
When action alone is certainty:
The heart's still-lifes are still
Only after a violent death.
iii. Pale in the prospect of my love
Your body lies, a fiction but
My one chance of saving what
Time and society erode.
iv. So I return to the gestures of lust
As if it were to innocence:
Repetition is the only mode
That nature knows of memory.
– Richard Howard, from The Damages (Wesleyan University Press, 1967)
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| Hans Rottenhammer and Jan Brueghel the Elder The Contest of Apollo and Pan 1599 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Landscape with Abraham and Isaac among ruins before 1667 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Classical landscape before 1671 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Johann Hulsman Latona transforming the peasants into frogs before 1652 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Guercino St Sebastian succoured by two angels 1617 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Alessandro Turchi Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Ludovico Carracci St Sebastian ca. 1590 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Cigoli Venus and Adonis ca. 1600-1610 oil on copper private collection |
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| Domenichino Abraham leading Isaac to sacrifice 1602 oil on copper Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Salome with the head of John the Baptist ca. 1690 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Anonymous Italian painter Portrait of a young man ca. 1575-1600 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli St John and St Peter at the empty tomb of Christ before 1641 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |