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| Domenichino Venus ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Giovanni Biliverti St Zenobius revives a Dead Boy ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi The Flight into Egypt ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| attributed to Leandro Bassano Portrait of a Young Nobleman ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger Anne of Denmark, consort of King James I ca. 1612 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
Of God
Men which seek God by reason, and natural strength (though we do not deny common notions and general impressions of a sovereign power) are like Mariners which voyaged before the invention of the Compass, which were but Costers, and unwillingly left the sight of the land. Such are they which would arrive at God by this world, and contemplate him only in his Creatures, and seeming Demonstration. Certainly, every Creature shews God, as a glass, but glimmeringly and transitorily, by the frailty both of the receiver and beholder: Our selves have his Image, as Medals, permanently, and preciously delivered. But by these meditations we get no further than to know what he doth, not what he is. But as by the use of the Compass, men safely dispatch Ulysses' dangerous ten years' travel in so many days, and have found out a new world richer than the old, so doth Faith, as soon as our hearts are touched with it, direct and inform us in that great search of the discovery of God's Essence, and the new Jerusalem, which Reason durst not attempt.
– John Donne, from Essays in Divinity (ca. 1611)
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| Daniel Fröschl Two Satyrs and a Nymph with Putto ca. 1613 watercolor on vellum Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| William Larkin Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset 1613 oil on panel Kenwood House, London |
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| William Larkin Elizabeth Cary née Tanfield ca. 1614-18 oil on panel Kenwood House, London |
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| Adriaen van Nieulandt Diana and her Nymphs 1615 oil on canvas National Trust, Ham House, London |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Christ's Charge to Peter ca. 1616 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jacob Jordaens The Temptation of the Magdalen ca. 1616-17 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cornelius Johnson Martha Temple, Lady Penyston 1619 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Anthony van Dyck The Deposition ca. 1619 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Diego Velázquez Two Young Men eating at a Humble Table ca. 1618-20 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Guercino Head of an Old Man ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |