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| Andrea Vaccaro Penitent Magdalen before 1670 oil on canvas Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo |
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| Willem Drost Apostle with a Book ca. 1654-59 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastelletta) The Madonna distributing Alms ca. 1610-12 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Luca Giordano The Entombment ca. 1659-60 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Francesco Maffei Sacrifice of the Daughter of Jephthah ca. 1650 oil on canvas Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento |
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| Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) St John the Baptist in the Wilderness before 1557 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Christ Mocked ca. 1630 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Paggi The Flagellation 1615 oil on canvas Palazzo Bianco, Genoa |
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| Agnolo Bronzino and workshop Immaculate Conception (detail) ca. 1570-72 oil on panel Chiesa di Santa Maria Regina della Pace, Florence |
from Blues for Alice
When you get in on a try you never learn it back
umpteen times the tenth part of a featured world
in black and in back it's roses and fostered nail
bite rhyme sling slang, a song that teaches without
travail of the tale, the one you longing live
and singing burn
* * *
Step down off our whelm lessons and shortly fired
enter the bristle strum of Corrosion Kingdom
where the last comes by first ever ring, every
race through that tunnel of sun drop and pencil
in the margins of a flare, of higher wish than dare,
the stroked calmings of a line will spin and chime
in blue quicks of a dream blues, the chores
of those whispering gone crenulations
– Clark Coolidge, from Sound as Thought: Poems 1982-1984
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Peter receiving the Keys from Christ ca. 1618 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
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| Michiel van Musscher Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1660-80 oil on canvas Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire |
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| Domenico Riccio (Domenico Brusasorci) Adoration of the Magi 1553 oil on canvas Museo degli affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona |
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| Marco Pino Raising of Lazarus ca. 1570 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Battista Franco Baptism of Christ ca. 1555 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna, Venice |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco Samson battling the Lion ca. 1632-33 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |