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| Sandro Botticelli Madonna del Magnificat (detail) 1483 tempera on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of Laura Battiferri (detail) ca. 1550-55 oil on panel Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of a Dominican (detail) 1525 oil on panel Musei Civici di Treviso |
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| Domenico Zeni Portrait of Prince Bishop Emanuele Maria Thun (detail) 1807 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Trento |
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| Francesco Melzi Leda and the Swan (detail) ca. 1508-1515 oil on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
from The Erotics of Detail
The angle his head made to his raised arm in the terminal crowd,
waving as I came off the plane; his insistent use of the term "small a"
in math class, when the rest of us said, "little a":
details I've taken away
from men, storing them back:
the way my date cleaned my windshield,
giving the squeegee a good smart shake between the swipes; how he read
to himself, but said the esses out loud:
* * *
but I
don't want those people back: I rather prefer the sudden frisson of hearing
someone call somebody "Slick," for example, as he once did to me, and
having
that affair crash down again into the present:
– Janet Holmes (1995)
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| Paolo Morando (Il Cavazzola) The Way to Calvary (detail) 1517 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Giorgio Vasari Supper of St Gregory the Great with Pilgrims (detail) 1540 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Domenichino Martyrdom of St Agnes (detail) ca. 1619-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Jacopo Zucchi Psyche and Cupid (detail) 1589 oil on copper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Francesco Salviati The Annunciation (detail) ca. 1533 oil on panel Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa Grande, Rome |
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| Michele Tosini Personification of Night (detail) ca. 1555-65 oil on panel Galleria Colonna, Rome |
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| Jacopo da Empoli The Annunciation (detail) 1609 oil on canvas Basilica di Santa Trinità , Florence |
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| Santi di Tito The Resurrection (detail) ca. 1574 oil on panel Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence |
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| Gianfrancesco Caroto The Crucifixion (detail) ca. 1545 oil on canvas Museo degli affreschi Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona |