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| Bartolomeo Schedoni Holy Family with young St John the Baptist ca. 1610 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| workshop of Leandro Bassano Doge Marcantonio Memmo ca. 1612-15 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| attributed to Carlo Saraceni St Gregory the Great before 1620 oil on canvas Thirlestane Castle, Lauderdale, Scotland |
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| attributed to Carlo Saraceni St Ambrose before 1620 oil on canvas Thirlestane Castle, Lauderdale, Scotland |
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| attributed to Jacopo Ligozzi Maria Maddalena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany with her Son and Daughter ca. 1620 oil on canvas National Trust, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk |
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| Giovanni Serodine The Tribute Money ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Michelangelo Cerquozzi Ceres as Personification of Summer ca. 1630-40 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Late Summer
Before the moths have even appeared
to orbit around them, the streetlamps come on,
a long row of them glowing uselessly
along the ring of garden that circles the city center,
where your steps count down the dulling of daylight.
At your feet, a bee crawls in small circles like a toy unwinding.
Summer specializes in time, slows it down almost to dream.
And the noisy day goes so quiet you can hear
the bedraggled man who visits each trash receptacle
mutter in disbelief: Everything in the world is being thrown away!
Summer lingers, but it's about ending. It's about how things
redden and ripen and burst and come down. It's when
city workers cut down trees, demolishing
one limb at a time, spilling the crumbs
of twigs and leaves all over the tablecloth of street.
Sunglasses! the man softly exclaims
while beside him blooms a large gray rose of pigeons
huddled around a dropped piece of bread.
– Jennifer Grotz (2011)
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Naples Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Battistello Caracciolo Sacrifice of Abraham before 1635 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Echo and Narcissus ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| workshop of Angelo Nardi Christ on the Cross ca. 1635-50 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Lorenzo Lippi Allegory of Fortune ca. 1640 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1640-60 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Guercino The Hellespontine Sibyl ca. 1645-55 oil on canvas National Trust, Ickworth House, Suffolk |
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| Carlo Dolci Adoration of the Magi 1649 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |