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| attributed to Carlo Maratti Portrait of a Youth ca. 1700 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Godfrey Kneller Portrait of Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle ca. 1700 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Thomas Murray Portrait of a Man in a Blue Cloak 1702 oil on canvas National Trust, Treasurer's House, York |
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| John Scougal Portrait of Regent Skene of Rubislaw 1702 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery |
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| Carlo Maratti Marchese Niccolò Maria Pallavicini guided to the Temple of Virtù by Apollo (with self-portrait of the artist) 1705 oil on canvas National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
from Cities
Can we believe – by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each patterned alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
Crowded – can we believe,
not in utter disgust,
in ironical play –
but the maker of cities grew faint
with the beauty of temple
and space of temple,
arch upon prefect arch,
of pillars and corridors that led out
to strange court-yards and porches
where sun-light stamped
hyacinth-shadows
black on the pavement.
That the maker of cities grew faint
with the splendour of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew, fashioned this –
street after street alike.
For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice unpacked with the honey,
rare, measureless.
So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty unrivalled yet –
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now –
spread larvae across them,
not honey but seething life.
And in these dark cells,
packed street after street,
souls live, hideous yet –
O disfigured, defaced,
with no trace of the beauty
men once held so light.
– H.D. (1925)
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| Francesco Solimena Diana and Endymion ca. 1705-1710 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Anonymous Artist working in Rome Creation of Eve ca. 1700-1720 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| James Thornhill The Muses escaping Violation from Pyreneus ca. 1705-1710 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Giuseppe Maria Crespi St Jerome in the Desert ca. 1710-20 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Paolo de Matteis The Choice of Hercules 1712 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Venus and Cupid 1716 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Christ healing the Blind Man ca. 1712-16 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Nicolas Lancret Italian Comedians by a Fountain ca. 1717-18 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Rendez-vous de Chasse ca. 1717-18 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Pierrot, Harlequin and Scapin ca. 1719 oil on panel National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |