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| G.F. Folingsby Study of Pink Silk ca. 1860-70 oil on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| G.F. Folingsby Study of Yellow Silk ca. 1860-70 oil on paper National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Anonymous German Artist Portrait of a Girl dressed as a Shepherdess ca. 1665 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous German Artist Portrait of a Boy dressed as a Hunter ca. 1665 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Roman Empire Colossal Statue of Dionysus 1st century AD basanite (formerly in the Farnese Collection, Rome) Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Roman Empire Colossal Statue of Hercules 1st century AD basanite (formerly in the Farnese Collection, Rome) Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Hans Memling Eve ca. 1485-90 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Memling Adam ca. 1485-90 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Canaletto Piazza San Marco, Venice, seen from the Campo San Basso ca. 1760 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Canaletto Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, towards the East ca. 1760 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of a Court Servant of Henry VIII 1533 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Hans Holbein the Younger Portrait of the Wife of a Court Servant of Henry VIII 1533 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Jacques Stella Jacob wrestling with the Angel ca. 1615-20 oil on jasper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| attributed to Jacques Stella Lot fleeing Sodom ca. 1615-20 oil on jasper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| workshop of Giovanni Stanchi Apollo and Daphne within a Garland ca. 1640 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| workshop of Giovanni Stanchi Pan and Syrinx within a Garland ca. 1640 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
Paired Things
Who, who had only seen wings,
could extrapolate the
skinny sticks of things
birds use for land,
the backward way they bend,
the silly way they stand?
And who, only studying
birds use for land,
the backward way they bend,
the silly way they stand?
And who, only studying
birdtracks in the sand,
could think those little forks
had decamped on the wind?
could think those little forks
had decamped on the wind?
So many paired things seem odd.
Who ever would have dreamed
the broad winged raven of despair
would quit the air and go
would quit the air and go
bandylegged upon the ground,
a common crow?
– Kay Ryan (1994)