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| Rogier van der Weyden Portrait of a Woman (detail) ca. 1445 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Benozzo Gozzoli Procession of the Magi (detail) 1459 fresco Cappella dei Magi, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence |
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| Piero della Francesca St Michael Archangel (detail) ca. 1470 tempera on panel National Gallery, London |
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| workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio Tobias and the Angel (detail) ca. 1470-75 tempera on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni Bellini Dead Christ supported by Angels (detail) ca. 1473 tempera and oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Raphael Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami (detail) ca. 1510 oil on panel Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo Portrait of a Young Roman Woman (detail) ca. 1512 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
Hands
Hands on the keys I saw – only hands;
And yet her whole life passed before me there,
Passed as she played the lilting, joyous waltz.
Hands – hypocrites – that belied the happy notes they struck;
Tapering fingers of nerves, weighted with glittering ware;
Tired hands, where veins throbbed in the hope they might keep still;
Beautiful, yet too white, wavering wearily on,
Playing the song of life when the dirge of death had begun.
– Marion Strobel (1920)
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| Parmigianino Portrait of a Collector (detail) ca. 1523 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of a Young Man (detail) ca. 1550-55 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Johannes Stradanus Christ driving the Money-Changers from the Temple (detail) 1572 oil on panel Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence |
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| Philippe de Champaigne Moses with the Ten Commandments (detail) ca. 1648 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St Jerome (detail) ca. 1648 oil on canvas Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Carlo Dolci Allegory of Charity (detail) ca. 1659 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Pietro Dandini Allegory of Concord (detail) ca. 1675-85 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Ubaldo Oppi The Surgeons (detail) 1926 oil on canvas Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna |