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| Bernard Picart Bending Figure (Drapery Study) 1711 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Paolo Pagani Apotheosis of a Male Cleric-Saint before 1716 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Paolo Pagani Allegorical Figures before 1716 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Carlo Donelli Half-Length Figure Study before 1715 drawing private collection |
from Milton: A Poem
The sky is an immortal tent built by the Sons of Los:
And every space that a man views around his dwelling-place
Standing on his own roof or in his garden on a mount
Of twenty-five cubits in height, such space is his universe.
And on its verge the sun rises and sets, the clouds bow
To meet the flat earth and the sea in such an order'd space:
The starry heavens reach no further, but here bend and set
On all sides, and the two Poles turn on their valves of gold:
And if he moves his dwelling-place, his heavens also move
Where'er he goes, and all his neighbourhood bewail his loss.
Such are the spaces called Earth and such its dimension.
As to that false appearance which appears to the reasoner
As of a globe rolling through voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro.
The microscope knows not of this nor the telescope: they alter
The ratio of the spectator's organs, but leave objects untouch'd.
For every space larger than a red globule of Man's blood
Is visionary, and is created by the Hammer of Los;
And every space smaller than a globule of Man's blood opens
Into Eternity of which this vegetable Earth is but a shadow.
The red globule is the unwearied sun by Los created
To measure time and space to mortal men every morning.
– William Blake (1804-1810)
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| François Verdier Running Figure before 1730 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Lorenzo de Ferrari Allegorical Figure before 1744 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Francesco Solimena Figure of Fame before 1747 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Jacopo Amigoni Study for a Portrait of a Field Marshal before 1752 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Matteo Bonechi Angels looking down from Clouds before 1756 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini Woman with Two Pages and Entourage ca. 1773 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Joseph-Marie Vien Study of Seated Model wearing Bishop's Chasuble and Mitre ca. 1780 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Jean Grandjean Standing Woman in Neoclassical Dress before 1781 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani Bacchus before 1785 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani Abduction of Dejanira by the Centaur Nessus before 1785 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |