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| Jerôme Duquesnoy the Younger Pietà ca. 1645 alabaster statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jakob Auer Apollo and Daphne ca. 1688 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Monogrammist PB Risen Christ 1625 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Balthasar Griessmann Hercules and the Nemean Lion ca. 1670-75 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Marriage
She says, "This butterfly,
this waterfly, this nomad
that has 'proposed
to settle on my hand for life' –
What can one do with it?
There must have been more time
in Shakespeare's day
to sit and watch a play.
You know so many artists who are fools."
He says, "You know so many fools
who are not artists."
The fact forgot
that "some have merely rights
while some have obligations,"
he loves himself so much,
he can permit himself
no rival in that love.
She loves herself so much,
she cannot see herself enough –
a statuette of ivory on ivory,
the logical last touch
to an expansive splendor
earned as wages for work done:
one is not rich but poor
when one can always seem so right.
What can one do for them –
these savages
condemned to disaffect
all those who are not visionaries
alert to undertake the silly task
of making people noble?
– Marianne Moore (1923)
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| Anonymous Sculptor working in Germany Neptune ca. 1625-50 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Justus Glesker after Michelangelo Risen Christ (copy of the marble statue in Rome, Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva) ca. 1635-40 ivory statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Niccolò Roccatagliata Triton ca. 1600-1625 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leone Leoni Bound Barbarian ca. 1550-60 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Peter Flötner Putto ca. 1530-35 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Adriano Fiorentino Satyr ca. 1486 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Laurent Delvaux St Teresa of Avila 1765 marble statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Sculptor working in Italy Horse Head 16th century marble ornament Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Sculptor working in Italy Torso of Hercules ca. 1550-1600 marble statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Sculptor working in Italy Medici Venus (copy of marble statue in Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi) 17th century marble statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |