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| Varvara Stepanova Billiard Players 1920 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Frank Stella Double Scramble 1978 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau L'Enseigne de Gersaint 1721 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Carl Joseph Begas The Artist's Parents 1826 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Francesco Coghetti Allegory of Strength ca. 1832-40 wall painting Villa Torlonia, Rome |
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| John Constable East Bergholt House ca. 1809 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Georges-Olivier Desvallières Mythological Scene ca. 1890 watercolor and gouache on paper Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Paolo Fiammingo Judgment of Paris ca. 1575-80 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Alexander van Gaelen Queen Anne's procession to the Houses of Parliament ca. 1702 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Sebastiano Galvano Massacre of the Innocents ca. 1590 oil on canvas Basilica di Santa Giustina, Padua |
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| Giorgione Adoration of the Kings ca. 1506-1507 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Phyllis Milne Untitled 1986 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Pasquale Ottino Joseph and Potiphar's Wife before 1630 oil on black marble (pietra da paragone) Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Hilaire Pader Triumph of Joseph (the artist representing himself as Joseph) 1657 oil on canvas Cathédrale Saint Étienne de Toulouse |
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| Karl Friedrich Schinkel Landscape with Ruins of a Gothic Cloister 1809 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
A Celtic Miscellany
Magic rain magic mist magic dew magic hail
Magic darkness magic sea magic waves magic
River magic fountain magic well magic spring
That bursts forth when a magic spear pierces
Rock magic oak tree magic ash magic lime tree
Magic bough magic yew magic hawthorn magic
Tree to make you young again magic tree to
Prevent hunger magic thorn magic ivy magic
Fern magic blossom, mistletoe and mandrake
Magic wild grasses magic wheat magic breath
Magic blood magic feather magic dung magic
Piss magic mantle magic trousers magic veil
Magic hat magic chain magic sword magic
Shield magic hearth magic bench magic door
Magic cry of a deer or cry of a magic deer;
Seven as a magic number magic the human
Head of divination magic also the head of
A dog, magic too vessels that burst in the fire
To uncover disobedience magic the river
That rises to drown liars magic the stone
That causes silence magic the deep lake
That causes forgetfulness magic the hazelnut
That makes a lover foolish magic the stone
That banishes sorrow magic the charm bought
Cheaply in the form of small poetry books,
Or nine the magic number and the magic
Number seven again and the magic twelve also
And green as that magic color violet as magic
Red as magic black as magic white as magic
Purple also as a magic hue and also red again;
Magic also the felling of two oak trees in a wood
And the magic wand used by the Druids to
Find your beloved carried away by fairies –
And, when all else fails, magic the new-fangled
Blessings of Christians swarming into our oak
Wood now, making even the disappeared speak.
– Thomas McCarthy (2019)