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| Pieter Christoffel Wonder Patrons and Lovers of Art 1830 oil on canvas private collection |
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| David Teniers the Younger Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery of Italian Paintings in Brussels 1651 oil on canvas Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Charles Angrand Vue intérieure du Musée de Rouen 1880 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Dirck van Delen and Gonzales Coques Family Group in a Picture Gallery ca. 1667-71 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
Touch Gallery: Joan of Arc
The sculptures in this gallery have been
carefully treated with a protective wax
so that visitors may touch them.
– EXHIBITIONS, THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Stone soldier, it's okay now.
I've removed my rings, my watch, my bracelets.
I'm allowed, brave girl,
to touch you here, where the mail covers your throat,
your full neck, down your shoulders
to here, where raised unlatchable buckles
mock-fasten your plated armor.
Nothings peels from you.
Your skin gleams like the silver earrings
you do not wear.
Above you, museum windows gleam October.
Above you, high gold leaves flinch in the garden,
but the flat immovable leaves entwined in your hair to crown you
go through what my fingers can't.
I want you to have a mind I can turn in my hands.
You have a smooth and upturned chin,
cold cheeks, unbruisable eyes,
and hair as grooved as fig skin.
It's October, but it's not October
behind your ears, which don't hint
of dark birds moving overhead,
or of the blush and canary leaves
emptying themselves
in slow spasms
into shallow hedgerows.
Still bride of your own armor,
bride of your own blind eyes,
this isn't an appeal.
If I could I would let your hair down
and make your ears disappear.
Your head at my shoulder, my fingers on your lips –
as if the cool of your stone curls were the cool of an evening –
as if you were about to eat salt from my hand.
– Mary Szybist (Incarnadine, 2013)
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| Jenaro Pérez Villaamil Chapel of the Benavente Family in Medina de Rioseco 1842 oil on canvas Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga |
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| Stefano Papi Loggia with Benediction of Saints 1703 ceiling fresco Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Candeli, Florence |
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| Rudolf von Alt Interior, Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice 1882 watercolor private collection |
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| Pieter Saenredam Interior of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem 1636-37 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Emanuel de Witte Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft 1651 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Wassily Kandinsky The Ludwigskirche, Munich 1908 oil on cardboard Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Gian Paolo Panini The Pantheon, Rome 1747 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Jean-Léon Gérome Louis XIV receiving the Grand Condé at Versailles in 1674 1878 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Jean-Paul Laurens Excommunication of Robert the Pious, King of the Franks 1875 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Frank O. Salisbury Roof of the Great Hall, Westminster under construction in 1397 1924 oil on canvas Parliamentary Art Collection, London |
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| Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger Banqueting Scene 1630 oil on copper Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky |