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| Jean Malouel Pietà ca. 1400-1410 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (Lo Scheggia) Triumph of Fame ca. 1449 tempera on panel (birth salver) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Cosmè Tura Adoration of the Magi ca. 1480 tempera on panel Harvard Art Museums |
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| Fra Bartolomeo Madonna and Child 1490s oil on panel private collection |
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| Sodoma Allegory of Love ca. 1508 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenico Beccafumi Holy Family with St John the Baptist ca. 1510-30 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Luca Signorelli Holy Family with St Zachary, St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist after 1512 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Perino del Vaga Two Putti blowing Horns ca. 1530 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Marco Marchetti Hercules and the Lernean Hydra ca. 1555-56 oil on panel Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| workshop of Gerrit van Honthorst Putti with Flower Garland ca. 1650 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Daniel Seiter Dead Christ adored by Angels and Two Franciscans ca. 1675-1700 oil on canvas Museo Diocesano Tridentino, Trento |
It was not Death, for I stood up,
And all the Dead, lie down –
It was not Night, for all the Bells
Put out their Tongues, for Noon.
It was not Frost, for on my Flesh
I felt Siroccos – crawl –
Nor Fire – for just my marble feet
Could keep a Chancel, cool –
And yet, it tasted, like them all,
The Figures I have seen
Set orderly, for Burial,
Reminded me, of mine –
As if my life were shaven,
And fitted to a frame,
And could not breathe without a key,
And 'twas like Midnight, some –
When everything that ticked – has stopped –
And space stares – all around –
Or Grisly frosts – first Autumn morns,
Repeal the Beating Ground –
But, most, like Chaos – Stopless – cool –
Without a Chance, or spar –
Or even a Report of Land –
To justify – Despair.
– Emily Dickinson (1862)
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| Georg Engelhard Schröder Juno, or, Allegory of the Element of Air before 1750 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Diana and her Nymphs bathing ca. 1778-82 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Jacques Pajou Portrait-Miniature of a Woman 1805 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |