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| Cosmè Tura Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels ca. 1475 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Francesco Morone The Holy Trinity with the Virgin and St John the Baptist before 1529 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Girolamo dai Libri Virgin and Child enthroned with St Joseph, the Archangel Raphael and Tobias 1530 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Titian Assumption of the Virgin ca. 1530-35 oil on canvas Duomo di Verona |
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| Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi) Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints 1533 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Johannes Stradanus The Crucifixion 1569 oil on panel Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple 1583 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Paolo Veronese Assumption of the Virgin 1586 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
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| Pietro Sorri Disputation on the Holy Trinity ca. 1600 oil on canvas Chiesa di Sant' Agostino, Siena |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio The Resurrection ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bernardo Strozzi The Vision of St Dominic ca. 1620 oil on canvas Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa |
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| Alessandro Turchi Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist and St Francis ca. 1640 oil on stone (pietra di paragone) Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
from The May Magnificat
When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights the orchard-apple
And thicket and thorp are merry
With silver-surfèd cherry
And azuring-over greybell makes
Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes
And magic cuckoocall
Caps, clears, and clinches all –
This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth
To remember and exultation
In God was her salvation.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Stonyhurst, May 1878 – sprung rhythm, four stresses in each line of the first couplet, three in each of the second" – note on the manuscript)
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| Pietro da Cortona Martyrdom of St Martina 1656 oil on canvas Basilica di San Francesco, Siena |
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| Bertholet Flemalle Conversion of St Paul before 1675 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Pompeo Batoni Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints ca. 1736 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |