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| Pietro da Rimini The Crucified Christ ca. 1330-40 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Lorenzo Monaco The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and St John the Evangelist ca. 1406 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Rodrigo de Osona the Elder The Lamentation ca. 1465 oil on panel Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Rodrigo de Osona the Elder The Resurrection ca. 1465 oil on panel Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini Assumption of the Virgin, with St Thomas ca. 1475-1500 oil and tempera on panel John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini The Flight into Egypt ca. 1505 tempera on panel Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini Adoration of the Child ca. 1505 tempera on panel Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Albrecht Dürer St Michael fighting the Dragon 1497 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Albrecht Dürer The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit 1496-97 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light's delay.
With witness I speak this. But where I say
Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent
To dearest him that lives alas! away.
I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins (first published 1918)
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| Albrecht Dürer The Harrowing of Hell 1510 woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Camillo Boccaccino The Nativity before 1546 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Theodoor Rombouts Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1620-30 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Bartolomeo Cesi The Annunciation before 1629 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Charles de La Fosse St John the Evangelist ca. 1700-1702 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Onofrio Avellino Dead Christ supported by the Virgin and an Angel before 1741 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Maria Catharina Prestel after Jacopo Vignali Monks celebrating High Mass 1779 etching and aquatint Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| William Greve after Vasco Fernandes St Peter enthroned as Pope 1892 chromolithograph Royal Collection, Great Britain |