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| Anonymous German Artist Holy Family late 16th century oil on agate Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jacques Stella Risen Christ appearing to the Virgin ca. 1640 oil on onyx Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous German Artist Baptism of Christ early 17th century oil on marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Florence Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1680-1720 oil on marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Felice Riccio (Felice Brusasorci) Dead Christ mourned by Angels ca. 1590 oil on slate Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| attributed to Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) after a drawing by Michelangelo Holy Family with young St John the Baptist (Il Silenzio) before 1557 oil on slate Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacques Stella Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1639 oil on slate Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Anthony Devis Portrait of Margaret Ainge ca. 1780 oil on glass Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Margaret Gere A Bowl of Flowers ca. 1910 oil on glass The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| Margaret Gere What's for Pudding Today? ca. 1925 oil on glass The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
Cornkind
So the rain falls
it drops all over the place
and where it finds a little rock pool
it fills it up with dirt
and the corn grows
a green Bette Davis sits under it
reading a volume of William Morris
oh fertility! beloved of the Western world
you aren't so popular in China
though they fuck too
and do I really want a son
to carry on my idiocy past the Horned Gates
poor kid a staggering load
yet it can happen casually
and he lifts a little of the load each day
as I become more and more idiotic
and grows to be a strong strong man
and one day carries as I die
my final idiocy and the very gates
into a future of his choice
but what of William Morris
what of you Million Worries
what of Bette Davis in
AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM MORRIS
OR THE WORLD OF SAMUEL GREENBERG
what of Hart Crane
what of phonograph records and gin
what of "what of"
you are of me, that's what
and that's the meaning of fertility
hard and moist and moaning
– Frank O'Hara (1960)
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| Anonymous German Artist The Judgment of Paris 17th century oil on glass Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales |
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| Anonymous German Artist Hera requesting the gift of Io from Zeus 17th century oil on glass Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales |
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder Country Road Scene with Figures ca. 1610 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Susanna and the Elders 1771 oil on copper National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
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| Victor Hume Moody Europe and the Powers ca. 1920 oil and tempera on copper National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge |