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| Giuseppe Porta (Giuseppe Salviati) Allegory of Art with Mercury and Pluto ca. 1556 oil on canvas Biblioteca Marciana, Venice |
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| Giulio Campi Mercury building a Ship before 1572 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| School of Fontainebleau Mercury 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Paulus Willemsz van Vianen Sleeping Argus with Mercury 1610 silver plaque Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jacob van Campen Argus, Mercury and Io ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Corneille van Clève Mercury ca. 1685-87 marble Parterre de Latone, Chåteau de Versailles |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Perseus and Andromeda ca. 1572-75 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Peter Paul Rubens after Polidoro da Caravaggio Perseus brandishing the Head of Medusa c1601-1608 drawing (copied from exterior fresco visible in Rubens's day but now lost) Musée du Louvre |
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| Leonaert Bramer Perseus brandishing the Head of Medusa before 1674 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Leonaert Bramer Perseus brandishing the Head of Medusa before 1674 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giacomo del Po Perseus beheading Medusa before 1726 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| François Verdier Perseus brandishing the Head of Medusa before 1730 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville Perseus 1792 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Andrea Schiavone Medea before 1563 drawing Musée du Louvre |
from Anthology of Rapture
What are they looking for
running to the summit of lost time?
running to the summit of lost time?
Hundreds of people vaporized
instantly
are walking mid-air
We didn't die
we skipped over death in a flash we became spirits
Give us a real a human death
as if we'd existed
– James Scully (2008)
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| Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders Prometheus Bound ca. 1611-18 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Paulus Willemsz van Vianen Prometheus 1610 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Prometheus ca. 1611 drawing (study for painting now in Philadelphia) Musée du Louvre |