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| Paolo Farinati Two River Nymphs ca. 1573 drawing British Museum |
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| Paolo Farinati Minerva and Prometheus ca. 1560-80 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Mars and Venus, with Cupid in Attendance ca. 1580-1600 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Paolo Farinati Neptune in his Chariot before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Neptune in his Chariot before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
from Contemplations
Ye Fish which in this liquid Region bide
That for each season have your habitation,
Now salt, now fresh where you think best to glide
To unknown coasts to give a visitation,
In Lakes and ponds, you leave your numerous fry.
So Nature taught, and yet you know not why,
You watry folk that know not your felicity.
Look how the wantons frisk to task the air,
Then to the colder bottom straight they dive;
Eftsoon to Neptune's glassy Hall repair
To see what trade they, great ones, there do drive,
Who forrage o're the spacious sea-green field
And take the trembling prey before it yield,
Whose armour is their scales, their spreading fins their shield.
– Anne Bradstreet (1678)
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| attributed to Paolo Farinati Putto imitating Neptune, seated on a Turtle and holding a Trident before 1606 drawing British Museum |
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| Paolo Farinati Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1570-75 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Paolo Farinati Apollo with Lyre, and Cupid ca. 1568 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paolo Farinati Ceres changing Ascalaphus into a Bird of Evil Omen before 1606 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Paolo Farinati Sleeping Cupid before 1606 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Paolo Farinati Perseus holding the Head of Medusa, with Pegasus in the Background before 1606 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Paolo Farinati Perseus and Andromeda before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Vestal Claudia pulling a Ship bearing the Statue of Cybele up the Tiber before 1606 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Paolo Farinati Frieze with Drunken Satyr and Putti before 1606 etching Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam |
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| Paolo Farinati Frieze with Putti, Birds, Armour and Weapons before 1606 drawing Harvard Art Museums |