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| Anonymous Italian Artist St Anne ca. 1310 painted wood Duomo di Chieti |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Virgin Annunciate 14th century painted wood Casa Museo Rodolfo Siviero, Florence |
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| Anonymous German Artist Female Study-Figure for Human Proportions ca. 1550 wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Male Study-Figure for Human Proportions ca. 1550 wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| El Greco Pandora ca. 1600-1610 painted wood Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| El Greco Epimetheus ca. 1600-1610 painted wood Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| attributed to Michel Erhart Allegory of Transience (young woman, young man, and old woman) ca. 1470-80 painted wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Falling Water
I think that people are the sum of their illusions,
That the cares that make them difficult to see
Are eased by distance, with their errors blending
In an intricate harmony, their truths abiding
In a subtle "spark" or psyche (each incomparable,
Yet each the same as all the others) and their
Disparate careers all joined together in a tangled
Moral vision whose intense, meandering design
Seems lightened by a pure simplicity of feeling,
As in grief, or in the pathos of a life
Cut off by loneliness, indifference or hate,
Because the most important thing is human happiness –
Not in the sense of private satisfactions, but of
Lives that realize themselves in ordinary terms
And with the quiet inconsistencies that make them real.
– John Koethe (1997)
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| Tilman Riemenschneider Adam ca. 1495-1505 wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| François Dieussart William II, Prince of Orange ca. 1650-75 painted wood Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Daniel Mauch Group of Erotes Playing ca. 1520-30 wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Felipe Ydalgo Buenfiglio Bust of Female Saint ca. 1750-60 painted wood Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| attributed to Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro) Crucifix ca. 1450 wood Basilica Cateriniana San Domenico, Siena |
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| Pietro di Giovanni Tedesco Crucifix (fragment) ca. 1460 painted wood Bode Museum, Berlin |
from Falling Water
In a late and very brief remark, Freud speculates
That space is the projection of a "psychic apparatus"
Which remains almost entirely oblivious to itself
– John Koethe (1997)
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| Ancient Egypt Recumbent Jackal ca. 1315-1081 BC painted wood Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous French Artist Winged Sphinx ca. 1790-1800 gilt-wood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |