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| workshop of Ambrogio Bergognone Christ with Crown of Thorns ca. 1500 oil on panel Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
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| Tobias Stimmer Portrait of Jacob Schwytzer 1564 oil on panel Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| Peter Paul Rubens after Titian Portrait of Isabella d'Este ca. 1600-1601 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lucio Massari Penitent St Jerome ca. 1610 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
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| Jacob Adriaensz Backer Portrait of a Man ca. 1630-40 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Guido Reni St Jerome ca. 1634-35 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Philippe Vignon Portrait of sculptor Philippe de Buyster ca. 1687 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| William Hogarth Portrait of Miss Mary Edwards 1742 oil on canvas Frick Collection, New York |
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| Joseph Franque Portrait of Napoleon as First Consul ca. 1799-1804 oil on canvas Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of Helena Radziwiłł 1802 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Madame Aymon (La Belle Zélie) 1806 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Friedrich Bury Portrait of Princess Augusta of Prussia ca. 1815 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Paul Delaroche Joan of Arc interrogated in Prison by Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester 1824 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Harriet Cany Peale Ideal Portrait ca. 1843-48 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Ferdinand Hodler The Halberdier ca. 1895 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Odd Nerdrum Pregnant Woman 1977 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
from La Contrescarpe
Upon arrival in Berlin
you were met at the station by a plume of smoke,
tomorrow's smoke already. Under
the Paulownia trees
you saw the knives erect, again,
sharpened by distance. There was
dancing. (Quatorze
juillets. Et plus de neuf autres.)
Cross Cut, Copy Cat, and Ugly Mug
mimed your experiences. Wrapped
in a banner, the Lord
appeared to the flock. He took
a pretty little sou-
venir: a snapshot.
The auto-
release, that was
you.
– Paul Celan, from Die Niemandsrose (S. Fischer-Verlag, 1963), translated by Nikolai Popov & Heather McHugh in Glottal Stop (Wesleyan University Press, 2000)