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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Portrait of the Mother of Captain von Stierle-Holzmeister 1819 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Félix Vallotton Portrait of Madame Gabrielle Vallotton 1905 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Francesco Solimena Ornamental Overdoor with Bound Slave ca. 1720-30 oil on canvas Landesmuseum Hannover |
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| Denman Waldo Ross Half-Length Study of Model ca. 1890 watercolor and gouache on paper Harvard Art Museums |
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| Émile-Jules Pichot Figure Study of Old Man ca. 1878-79 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Albert von Keller Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1880 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Walter Hege Apollo (Temple of Zeus at Olympia) 1935 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Girolamo Genga Minerva ca. 1506-1509 detached fresco (frieze fragment) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| François Duquesnoy Portrait of Nicolas Poussin ca. 1630 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Leendert van der Cooghen Portrait of Cornelis Cornelisz ca. 1654 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Simone Cantarini (il Pesarese) St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1640 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Georg Böttger Bust of Hercules (based on the Farnese Hercules in Naples) ca. 1870 albumen print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Joachim Beuckelaer Portrait of a Young Woman 1569 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Portrait of a Young Woman wearing a Crown ca. 1500 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jan Veth Portrait of artist Mauritz Willem van der Valk 1897 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Bartolomeo Veneto Portrait of a Man ca. 1520 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Pandora's Box
I might lift the eaves again
and startle a small room still lit from within
and finger the traces I left there.
The considerations of days
and startle a small room still lit from within
and finger the traces I left there.
The considerations of days
lurk behind porous walls.
They cling there like stains.
Carpets soaked in the seepage of dreams,
flakes of skin
piled on surfaces as thick as dust.
They cling there like stains.
Carpets soaked in the seepage of dreams,
flakes of skin
piled on surfaces as thick as dust.
There's a head-shape in the pillow
like a big fingerprint.
Memories flutter up like insects –
small shrieks, minor crimes inside
Memories flutter up like insects –
small shrieks, minor crimes inside
an inked-up window-pane
with clotted stars,
and now, outside the shut box,
this black beach with an ocean on it
with clotted stars,
and now, outside the shut box,
this black beach with an ocean on it
breathing in waves,
tiered like plate glass,
and the whole world at night-time
a wide sea full of starfish waiting to be caught.
and the whole world at night-time
a wide sea full of starfish waiting to be caught.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, The Nowhere Birds (2001)