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| Franz Pforr Self Portrait 1810 oil on canvas (painted in Rome) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Max Beckmann Head of a Young Woman 1922 etching Denver Art Museum |
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| Cristofano Allori Head of a Boy ca. 1600 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist The Sudarium 17th century oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Anonymous French Artist Head of a Bearded Man 16th century limestone fragment Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Greek Culture in South Italy Head of a Young Man 3rd century BC marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Lorenzo di Credi Head of a Boy with Laurel Wreath (study for painting, Adoration of the Shepherds) ca. 1500-1505 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Steve Cox Study of a Boy on Ecstasy 2000 watercolor and gouache on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Francesco Clemente Untitled #1 1998 watercolor on paper Denver Art Museum |
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| Svend Wiig Hansen Portrait 1958 engraving Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Huygh Pietersz Voskuyl Self Portrait 1638 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Andrea del Sarto Head of a Woman ca. 1517 drawing Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Feliks Topolski Portrait of writer Compton Mackenzie ca. 1960-70 drawing Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Pablo Picasso Weeping Woman 1937 oil on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Luke Rudolf Portrait no. 24 2010 oil and acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| attributed to Charlotte Jones The Eye of Princess Charlotte of Wales (only child and heir of King George IV) ca. 1817 watercolor on ivory (posthumous painting, with hair of the deceased) Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
from Mistlines
Watching the mistlines flow slowly in
And fill the land's declivities that lay
And fill the land's declivities that lay
Unseen until that indistinctness
Had acknowledged them, the eye
Grasps, at a glance, the mind's own
Food and substance, shape after shape
Emerging where all shapes drown;
Had acknowledged them, the eye
Grasps, at a glance, the mind's own
Food and substance, shape after shape
Emerging where all shapes drown;
For the mind is a hunter of forms:
Finding them wherever it may – in firm
Finding them wherever it may – in firm
Things or in frail, in vanishings –
It binds itself, in a world that must decay,
To present substance, and the words
Once said, present and substance
Both belie the saying.
It binds itself, in a world that must decay,
To present substance, and the words
Once said, present and substance
Both belie the saying.
– Charles Tomlinson (1972)