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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict leaves his Parents' House ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict gives Sacred Counsel to the Peasants ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict gives Sacred Counsel to the Peasants (detail with peasants) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict gives Sacred Counsel to the Peasants (detail with peasants) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict causes the Blade of a Scythe that had fallen into a Lake to return to the Shaft ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict causes the Blade of a Scythe that had fallen into a Lake to return to the Shaft (background) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
from Epitaph on Himself
My fortune and my choice this custom break,
When we are speechless grown to make stones speak,
Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou
In my grave's inside seest what thou art now,
Yet thou 'rt not yet so good; till death us lay
To ripe and mellow here, we're stubborn clay.
Parents make us earth, and souls dignify
Us to be glass; here to grow gold we lie.
Whilst in our souls sin bred and pamper'd is,
Our souls become worm-eaten carcases,
So we ourselves miraculously destroy.
Here bodies with less miracle enjoy
Such privileges, enabled here to scale
Heaven, when the trumpet's air shall them exhale.
– John Donne (1631)
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict receives two young Romans (detail with bystanders) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict excommunicates two Monks ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict excommunicates two Monks (detail with onlookers) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict excommunicates two Monks (detail with onlookers) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict banishes the Harlots ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict banishes the Harlots (detail of Harlots) ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict appears to Two Sleeping Monks with the Design for a Monastery ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |
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| Sodoma Life of St Benedict cycle St Benedict frees a Monk from Possession by a Demon ca. 1505-1508 fresco Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio |