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| Gerbrand van den Eeckhout The Infant Samuel brought by Hanna to Eli ca. 1660-65 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Karel Dujardin Conversion of St Paul 1662 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Frans van Mieris Venus and Cupid ca. 1665 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Caspar Netscher Child plucking a Rose 1669 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Allegory of the Senses 1668 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Gonzales Coques A Gentleman with his Two Daughters ca. 1664 oil on copper Wallace Collection, London |
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| Bartolomé Murillo Marriage of the Virgin ca. 1660-70 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Anonymous British Artist Portrait of a Lady ca. 1660-67 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| John Michael Wright Portrait of Mary Spencer, Lady Arundell of Wardour ca. 1662-64 oil on canvas National Trust, Trerice House, Cornwall |
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| Peter Lely Eleanor Needham, Lady Byron, as St Catherine ca. 1663-64 oil on canvas Tabley House, Cheshire |
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| Francesco Curradi Tobias and the Angel ca. 1661 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
from A Sermon Preached upon Whitsunday
"As the world is the whole frame of the world, God hath put into it a reproofe, a rebuke, lest it should seem eternall, which is, a sensible decay and age in the whole frame of the world, and every piece thereof. The seasons of the yeare irregular and distempered; the Sun fainter, and languishing; men lesse in stature, and shorter-lived. No addition, but only every yeare, new sorts, new species of wormes, and flies, and sicknesses, which argue more and more putrefaction of which they are engendred. And the Angels of heaven, which did so familiarly converse with men in the beginning of the world, though they may not be doubted to perform to us still their ministeriall assistances, yet they seem so far to have deserted this world, as that they do not appeare to us, as they did to those our Fathers."
– John Donne (1625)
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| Joost van Geel The Queen of Hearts ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Adriaen van Ostade Buying Fish ca. 1669 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch The Intruder - A Lady at her Toilette surprised by her Lover 1665 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Gabriël Metsu Woman reading a Letter ca. 1664-66 oil on panel National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |