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| follower of Il Sodoma St Sebastian ca. 1500-1550 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| workshop of Pietro Perugino Sleeping Disciples (recto) ca. 1500 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| workshop of Pietro Perugino Sleeping Disciples (verso) ca. 1500 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Cima da Conegliano Enthroned Bishop between a King and another Bishop ca. 1500 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Paris Bordone Ecce Homo ca. 1520 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Giorgio Gandini Study of Angels ca. 1523 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Polidoro da Caravaggio Christ carried to the Tomb ca. 1522 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
A Dirge
Some one who hears the bugle neigh will know
How cold it is, when sentries die by starlight.
But none who love to hear the hammering drum
Will look, when the betrayer
Laughs in the desert like a broken monument,
Ringing his tongue in the red bell of his head,
Gesturing like a flag.
The air that quivered after the earthquake
(When God died like a thief)
Still plays the ancient forums like pianos;
The treacherous wind, lover of the demented,
Will harp forever in the haunted temples.
What speeches do the birds make
With their beaks, to the desolate dead?
And yet we love those carsick amphitheaters,
Nor hear our messenger come home from hell
With hands shot full of blood.
No one who loves the fleering fife, will feel
The light of morning stab his flesh,
But some who hear the trumpet's raving, in the ruined sky,
Will dread the burnished helmet of the sun
Whose anger goes before the King.
– Thomas Merton (1942)
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| Biagio Pupini Mary Magdalene ca. 1524 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pordenone Study for The Martyrdom of St Peter Martyr ca. 1526-28 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Correggio Adam, Abraham and Isaac (study for cupola fresco, Parma Cathedral) ca. 1526-30 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Michelangelo Lamentation over the Dead Christ ca. 1530-35 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi Adoration of the Shepherds before 1536 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Rosso Fiorentino Study of Three Figures for The Massacre of the Innocents before 1540 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Perino del Vaga St Paul recovering his Sight at the Hands of Ananias (cartoon for the embroidery of a cope) ca. 1540-45 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |