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| attributed to Jean de Saint-Igny Woman with Lute ca. 1640 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anthony van Dyck Apostle Matthew ca. 1618-20 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Desiderio da Settignano Profile Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1460 marble relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Odoardo Fialetti Youth with Plumed Hat 1608 etching (plate from drawing manual) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Jacopo Amigoni Head of a Woman ca. 1730 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Profile Portrait of a Woman ca. 1500 marble relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| attributed to Cornelis de Vos Studies of a Woman ca. 1620 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1490 tempera and oil on panel Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan |
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| Donato Creti Study of a Young Woman ca. 1725 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Saint crowned with Roses ca. 1620 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Filippo Lippi Portrait of a Woman ca. 1445 tempera on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Disciple 1896 drawing (study for painting, Supper at Emmaus) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Jakob Schlesinger Portrait of artist Christian Philipp Köster ca. 1825 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Alphonse Legros Head of an Italian Model ca. 1890 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Louis Anquetin Self Portrait ca. 1890 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Claude-Marie Dubufe Anxiety (Study) ca. 1831 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
Mephostophilis [to Faustus]:
Marriage is but a cermoniall toy,
And if thou lovest me thinke no more of it.
I'le cull thee out the fairest Curtezans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed:
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Were she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautifull
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Hold, take this booke, peruse it thoroughly:
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings Thunder, Whirle-winds, Storme and Lightning:
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thy selfe,
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thy selfe,
And men in harnesse shall appeare to thee,
Ready to execute what thou commandst.
Ready to execute what thou commandst.
– Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act II, scene i (1592)