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| Valerio Castello Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1645 oil on canvas Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
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| Valerio Castello Death of Lucretia 1650 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti |
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| Valerio Castello Abduction of Helen 1650 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti |
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| Valerio Castello Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
from The Everlasting Gospel
Was Jesus Chaste, or did he
Give any Lessons of Chastity?
The morning blush'd fiery red:
Mary was found in Adulterous bed;
Earth groan'd beneath, & Heaven above
Trembled at discovery of Love.
Jesus was sitting in Moses' Chair,
They brought the trembling Woman There.
Moses commands she be ston'd to death:
What was the sound of Jesus' breath?
He laid His hand on Moses' Law;
The Ancient Heavens, in Silent Awe,
Writ with Curses from Pole to Pole,
All away began to roll.
The Earth, trembling & Naked lay
In secret bed of Mortal Clay,
On Sinai felt the hand divine
Putting back the bloody shrine,
And She heard the breath of God
As She heard by Eden's flood,
"Good & Evil are no more!
Sinai's trumpets, cease to roar!
Cease, finger of God, to write!
The Heavens are not clean in thy Sight.
Thou art Good, & thou Alone;
Nor may the sinner cast one stone.
To be Good only is to be
A God or else a Pharisee."
– William Blake (ca. 1818)
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| Valerio Castello Judith and Holofernes before 1659 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Valerio Castello Agony in the Garden ca. 1645 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Valerio Castello Abduction of Ganymede before 1659 drawing British Museum |
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| Valerio Castello Sacrifice to Diana ca. 1645 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Valerio Castello Diana and Actaeon with Pan and Syrinx ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida |
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| Valerio Castello Legend of St Geneviève of Brabant ca. 1652 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Valerio Castello Sacrifice of Noah ca. 1650-59 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Valerio Castello Joseph and Potiphar's Wife before 1659 oil on canvas Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire |
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| attributed to Valerio Castello The Perdono of St Francis (Apparition of Christ) ca. 1645-55 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Valerio Castello Design for Title Page with Allegorical Figures before 1659 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Valerio Castello Two Woman supporting a Recumbent Figure before 1659 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |