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| Flemish Workshop The Unicorn Purifies Water (at a Fountain) ca. 1495-1505 wool and silk tapestry Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francesco Camilliani Fontana Pretoria (detail with Mermaid, River God and Merman) 1555 marble Piazza della Pretoria, Palermo |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Triton with Shell before 1642 terracotta modello for fountain Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Jean Lepautre Design for Fountain with Statue of Fortuna 1661 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anonymous Dutch Printmaker after Jean Lepautre Fountain of Love (with Venus and Cupid) ca. 1688-98 color etching, printed à la poupée Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giovanni Battista Falda Bernini's Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome ca. 1691 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Design for a Fountain 17th century drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Daniel Marot Fountain before a Classical Building ca. 1710 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Pajou after Gianlorenzo Bernini Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome ca. 1752-56 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| François de Cuvilliés the Elder Design for Fountain, Grand Trianon, Versailles ca. 1766 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Gabriel de Saint-Aubin after Jacques-François Blondel The Anger of Neptune Fountain 1767 etching Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jacques-Ignace Hittorff Design for Maritime Fountain, Place de la Concorde, Paris 1839 drawing, with watercolor and gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Photographer Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Piazza Navona, Rome ca. 1860 albumen print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| James Anderson Temple of Vesta and Fountain, Rome ca. 1860-70 albumen print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Emmanuel Fremiet Fountain with Sea Creatures 1874 terracotta modello Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Susan Watkins Fontaine de l'Observatoire, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris ca. 1908 oil on board Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Jean Puiforcat Figure Skating Trophy in the form of a Frozen Fountain 1923 silver, enamel, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, marble Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
from In Place of Indigo, Who Fled Our Spectrum
There are six songs, no, seven, that need to be sung in the darkness:
The Battle on the Plains, where heroes stood and fell; the
Finding of the Treasure where it was hard to get to; the
Founding of the Fields, where all expanded in peace; the
Dancing on the Lawns where there was nothing wrong;
the Visit to the Sky, which was no wearying journey; the
Farewell to the Guide, when the next stage was reached;
The Darkening of It All, when it had become too late.
– John Hollander (1977)