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| Anonymous Maker working in Europe Mountain Landscape ca. 1550-1600 coral and gypsum Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Nubia Beads ca. AD 950 glass, shell, faience, stone Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Georg Schreiber Casket ca. 1630 amber, with silver and gold fittings Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Germany Tankard (handle formed by Satyr and Putto) ca. 1650 ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Innsbrucker Hofglashütte Bird ca. 1575-1600 glass Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ancient Rome Cup (possibly part of a lamp) 4th century AD carved mesh glass Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Dark Satanic Mills
The dark, satanic mills of Blake
how much darker and more satanic they are now!
But oh, the streams that stream white-faced, in and out,
in and out when the hooter hoots, white-faced, with a dreadful gush
of multitudinous ignominy,
what shall we think of these?
They are millions to my one!
They are millions to my one! But oh
what have they done to you, white-faced millions
mewed and mangled in the mills of man?
What have they done to you, what have they done to you,
what is this awful aspect of man?
Oh Jesus, didn't you see, when you talked of service
this would be the result!
When you said: Retro me, Satanas!
this is what you gave him leave to do
behind your back!
And now, the iron has entered into the soul
and the machine has entangled the brain, and got it fast,
and steel has twisted the loins of man, electricity has exploded the heart
and out of the lips of people jerk strange mechanical noises in place of speech.
What is man, that thou art no longer mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou pitiest him not?
Are these no longer men, these millions, millions?
What are they then?
– D.H. Lawrence (1927)
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| Ancient Rome Bowl 1st century AD agate glass Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Florence Inkwell (Triton with Dolphin) ca. 1550-1600 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Caspar Gras Nereid before 1674 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Vittoria Door Knocker (Neptune flanked by Hippocamps) ca. 1550-1600 bronze Kunsthistorisches-Museum-Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Germany Bowl (Nautilus Shape with Relief Figures) ca. 1650-1700 amber Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoph Maucher Cleopatra ca. 1690-1700 amber statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Germany Salt Cellar ca. 1651-54 silver Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Maker working in Italy Pitcher ca. 1550-75 alabaster, with gold mounts Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |