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| follower of Giulio Romano St Veronica with the Sudarium before 1550 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| follower of Hendrik Goltzius Two Figure Studies of Women 1568 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jean Hey Mourning Virgin (fragment of painting - Christ carrying the Cross) ca. 1500-1505 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean Hey St John the Evangelist (fragment of painting - Christ carrying the Cross) ca. 1500-1505 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Wolfgang Huber Raising of the Cross ca. 1522 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Italy Three Putti with Musical Instruments ca. 1520-30 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
The Land of Nod
Growing up, I barely knew the Bible, but read
and reread the part when Cain drifted east
or was drawn that way, into a place of desolation,
the land of Nod, there to begin, with a wife
of unknown origin, another race of men,
under the mark of God. As a boy, I thought Nod
would be a place where the blue scillas
would bloom gray, a country of the rack and screw,
the serrated sword, where the very serving cups
were bone. As a grown man, I've heard that Nod
never was a nation – of Cain's offspring, or anyone –
but a mistranslation of "wander," so Cain
could go wherever, and be in Nod. Far more
than God, I believe in Cain, who destroyed
his own brother, and therefore in any city
could have his wish, and be alone.
–James Arthur (2011)
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| Monogrammist IP The Fall of Man ca. 1520-30 pear-wood relief Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Study for The Purification of the Virgin ca. 1577 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti Young Woman and Matron before 1592 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Perino del Vaga Crossing of the Red Sea ca. 1522-23 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Callisto Piazza A Musical Gathering ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Camillo Procaccini The Transfiguration ca. 1590 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Allegory of Spirit and Matter ca. 1515-30 bronze plaquette Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Brutus and Lucretia ca. 1495-1515 bronze plaquette Victoria & Albert Museum |