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| attributed to Alexander Colin Landscape with Numa Pompilius and the Nymph Egeria ca. 1600 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous European Artist The Nymph Callisto asleep in the Forest ca. 1600 alabaster Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Angels supporting the Dead Christ ca. 1600-1620 gilt bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Alessandro Masnago Neptune pursuing Amphitrite ca. 1600-1620 agate cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Zacharias Lencker Adoration of the Christ Child 1609 silver Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist The Wedding of Jupiter and Juno early 17th century ivory Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from Gilgamesh
We met at the gay community center, called Compass,
in Lake Worth, where they sponsored "The Coming Out Group,"
with Forest, our skilled leader. Transsexuals met before.
You were fifty, I thirty-nine –
somewhat late to begin a life together for the first time;
we had begun to see announcements in the New York Times,
so we knew it was possible to print:
"Paul O'Shaughnessy and Spencer Reece were joined on a celery green love-seat . . ."
Five years we had, not forever, but something still.
* * *
You were distracted, distracted
until one day you said, "I do not desire you."
You had always been honest.
You wanted a younger man, between twenty and twenty-five.
The day blued around us –
our book of changes came to a close.
Your Christ-kiss issued no more.
You were what you had always been only more so –
Irish and unavailable, darling.
– Spencer Reece (2010)
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| Leonhard Kern The Lamentation ca. 1614-20 ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leonhard Kern Scene in a Women's Bath House ca. 1650 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Niccolò Roccatagliata The Annunciation before 1636 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jean Warin Hercules relieving Atlas of the Globe 1629 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Adam Lenckhardt The Lamentation ca. 1630 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Gérard van Opstal Marine Scene (Fishermen and Putti hauling in a Net of Fish) ca. 1640 alabaster Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Georg Schweigger Susanna and the Elders 1641 limestone Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Michel Anguier The Flood 1648-49 terracotta (damaged modello for a marble relief) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |