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| Federico Barocci Sketches for seated Madonna before 1612 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Federico Barocci The Institution of the Eucharist ca. 1603 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Federico Barocci The Visitation before 1612 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
from Dejection: An Ode
There was a time when, though my path was rough,
This joy within me dallied with distress,
And all misfortunes were but as the stuff
Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness:
For hope grew round me, like the twining vine,
And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
But now afflictions bow me down to earth:
Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth;
But oh! each visitation
Suspends what nature gave me at my birth,
My shaping spirit of Imagination.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1802)
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| Agostino Carracci Head of bearded man before 1602 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Agostino Carracci Design for frieze decoration before 1602 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Agostino Carracci Figure studies and caricature heads before 1602 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Annibale Carracci Male Sphinx before 1609 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
O Now The Drenched Land Wakes
O now the drenched land wakes;
Birds from their sleep call
Fitfully, and are still,
Clouds like milky wounds
Float across the moon.
O love, none may
Turn away long
From this white grove
Where all nouns grieve.
– Kenneth Patchen (1955)
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| Annibale Carracci Studies of boys posed as caryatids before 1609 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Annibale Carracci Back view of standing figure, half length ca. 1593-94 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Ludovico Carracci Seated figure representing the Catholic Faith before 1619 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Ludovico Carracci Two Standing Angels before 1619 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
Angels
They have little use. They are best as objects of torment.
No government cares what you do with them.
Like birds, and yet so human . . .
They mate by briefly looking at the other.
Their eggs are like white jellybeans.
Sometimes they have been said to inspire a man to do more with his life than he might have.
But what is there for a man to do with his life?
. . . They burn beautifully with a blue flame.
When they cry out it is like the screech of a tiny hinge; the cry of a bat. No one hears it . . .
– Russell Edson (2001)
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| Domenichino Studies of a landscape near a town before 1641 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Guido Reni Study for the Tanari Madonna before 1642 drawing Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Andrea Sacchi Académie before 1661 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
Poems from the archives of Poetry (Chicago)