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| Jacob van Doordt Portrait of a Prince of Denmark before 1629 oil on canvas Nivaagaard Museum, Nivå, Denmark |
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| Jacob van Doordt Portrait of Kirsten Munk with her Children 1623 oil on canvas Nationalhistoriske Museum, Hillerød, Denmark |
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| attributed to Jacob van Doordt Portrait of Charles I as Prince of Wales 1624 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger Portrait of a Family ca. 1665 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger Portrait of a Family ca. 1665-70 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger Self Portrait ca. 1645 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Justus Sustermans Imaginary Portrait of Isabella d'Este as Flora ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Justus Sustermans Portrait of Cosimo II de' Medici, his wife Maria Maddalena of Austria and their son Ferdinando II de' Medici ca. 1640 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Justus Sustermans Portrait of Cosimo III de' Medici as a Baby ca. 1642 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Justus Sustermans Portrait of Galileo Galilei ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Daniel van den Dyck Portrait of Antonio Canal 1647 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Daniel van den Dyck Portrait of a Nobleman ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jan de Herdt Portrait of Franz Augustin von Waldstein (full-length) ca. 1675-85 oil on canvas Muzeum Vysočiny, Třebíč, Czech Republic |
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| Jan de Herdt Portrait of Franz Augustin von Waldstein (half-length) ca. 1675-85 oil on canvas Muzeum Vysočiny, Třebíč, Czech Republic |
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| Jan de Herdt Portrait of a Nobleman as Mercury ca. 1670-80 oil on canvas private collection |
Venice Beach
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
To a green thought in a green shade.
– Andrew Marvell
These are all thoughts – of course. At the edge of the ocean with nowhere to go,
the nearest land three thousand miles away and under different management,
the nearest land three thousand miles away and under different management,
the diving sun another thirty thousand times that, there is no reality,
only these parlous notions, messages, statements, stylings on the edge of extinction.
Little petillas. A kind of spontaneous zoo of human recency and arrival
and promontory variorum. Imprudent comb-over thoughts,
rigid and proud eye-catching false thoughts, little jiggling thoughts,
intricate braided-beard thoughts the product of much misplaced patience,
product placement thoughts (which are rather elementary,
and are almost a contradiction in terms), unlike myriad highly-evolved
dog thoughts (no mutts here), pushing a baby in a three-wheeled stroller
whilst running very hard in no shirt and six-pack thoughts,
this a development on the now-obsolete egg and paddle
(what it does to the infant to be impelled at such a rate into the future
whilst facing backwards like an Aeroflot passenger is not recorded –
not that forward is necessarily better), high-concept silky-swishing Afghan hound thoughts,
intrusive bum thoughts, hapless and homeless panhandler thoughts
(a smarte carte loaded with undesirables never far to seek),
low-slung belly-dragging beagle thoughts little better
than the serpent in the Bible, holding hands Adam and Eve thoughts,
foot-shuffling Zimmer frame thoughts, "revolution in mobility" wheelchair and gravel thoughts,
pushed by most likely an illegal attendant borderline thoughts,
candy-striped T-shirt and shorts thoughts, cut-off thoughts,
paired with sometimes nothing more than a bikini top, those three-quarter length
thin and probably amphibious trousers, worn without socks, that men go in for,
suggestive of adaptability and resourcefulness thoughts,
standard over-loud mobile thoughts, ("our relationship is..."),
lying immobile on the grass on your back thoughts
(these are different), tourist thoughts, an unexpected preponderance of Russian thoughts
(though with residential qualifications), borscht belt leopard skin thoughts
dripping with gold and eccentric lamentations, dog and baby both thoughts
(these last thought to be ideally-balanced), high-stepping poodle thoughts
like a four-wheel drive with little intelligence in rough country,
furiously texting in the glare with all thumb to the pump thoughts,
being at least half elsewhere, baseball cap thoughts rife with determination,
slightly dated straw hat thoughts, reverse baseball cap also thoughts.
– Michael Hofmann (2013)