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| Anonymous Italian Artist Bust Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1400-1450 onyx cameo British Museum |
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| Leon Battista Alberti Self Portrait ca. 1435 bronze plaque National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pisanello Don Inigo d'Avalos ca. 1449-50 bronze medal Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Modena ca. 1450-70 opal cameo on carnelian base Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Antonio Amadeo Profile Portrait of Cicero ca. 1450-1500 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giovanni di Pasqualino Boldù Self Portrait ca. 1458 bronze medal Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Mino da Fiesole Bernardo Giugni ca. 1464-68 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Up Venus flew, and scarce durst up for fear
Of Phœbus' laughter, when she passed her sphere:
And so most ugly-clouded was the light,
That day was hid in day, night came ere night,
And Venus could not through the thick air pierce
Till the day's king, god of undaunted verse,
Because she was so plentiful a theme
To such as wore his laurel anademe,
Like to a fiery bullet made descent,
And from her passage those fat vapours rent
That, being not th'roughly rarified to rain,
Melted like pitch, as blue as any vein,
And scalding tempests made the earth to shrink
Under their fervour, and the world did think
In every drop a torturing spirit flew,
It pierced so deeply, and it burned so blue.
– George Chapman, from the Fourth Sestiad of Hero and Leander (a continuation of Christopher Marlowe's narrative poem, first published in 1598)
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ca. 1471-1500 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| attributed to Sperandio Savelli Eleonora of Aragon, Duchess of Ferrara ca. 1473 marble relief Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Matteo Civitali Profile Portrait of a Youth ca. 1475-1500 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Francesco Cinzio Benincasa 1478-80 marble relief Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Domenico dei Cammei Giangaleazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan ca. 1480-90 onyx cameo British Museum |
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| Bartolommeo Melioli Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua before 1484 bronze medal Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Adriano Fiorentino Giovanni Giovano Pontano ca. 1490 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| workshop of Niccolò Fiorentino Louis XII, King of France ca. 1500 onyx cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |