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| Garcia Fernandes Presentation of Christ in the Temple 1538 oil on canvas Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Domenico Carnevali Presentation of Christ in the Temple ca. 1568 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
from As The Dead Prey Upon Us
As the dead prey upon us,
they are the dead in ourselves,
awake, my sleeping ones, I cry out to you,
disentangle the nets of being!
I pushed my car, it had been sitting so long unused.
I thought the tires looked as though they only needed air.
But suddenly the huge underbody was above me, and the rear tires
were masses of rubber and thread variously clinging together
as were the dead souls in the living room, gathered
about my mother, some of them taking care to pass
beneath the beam of the movie projector, some record
playing on the victrola, and all of them
desperate with the tawdriness of their life in hell
I turned to the young man on my right and asked, "How is it,
there?" And he begged me protestingly don't ask, we are poor
poor. And the whole room was suddenly posters and presentations
of brake linings and other automotive accessories, cardboard
displays, the dead roaming from one to another
as bored back in life as they are in hell, poor and doomed
to mere equipments
my mother, as alive as ever she was, asleep
when I entered the house as I often found her in a rocker
under the lamp, and awaking, as I came up to her, as she ever had
I found out she returns to the house once a week, and with her
the throng of the unknown young who center on her as much in death
as other like suited and dressed people did in life
O the dead!
– Charles Olson (1956)
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| Louis Boullogne the Younger Presentation of Christ in the Temple 1688 oil on canvas Acadian Museum, University of Moncton, New Brunswick |
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| Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti) Circumcision of Christ ca. 1505-1507 oil on panel Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Francesco Bonsignori Christ as a Boy ca. 1510-14 oil on panel Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Leonardo Corona Baptism of Christ before 1605 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Paolo Farinati Baptism of Christ before 1606 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Cesare Pollini Studies for Baptism of Christ ca. 1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Baptism of Christ ca. 1604-1605 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Baptism of Christ 1604-1605 oil on canvas (painted in Mantua for the Gonzaga) Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| attributed to Sisto Badalocchio Baptism of Christ before 1647 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Paolo Veronese Wedding Feast at Cana ca. 1562 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Paolo Veronese Wedding Feast at Cana 1562-63 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Benedetto Diana (Benedetto Rusconi) Christ Blessing ca. 1510-20 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Toussaint Dubreuil Christ Blessing ca. 1580-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Christ in Prayer ca. 1600-1650 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Montepulciano |