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Taddeo Zuccaro Design for Wall Panel ca. 1553-56 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder Ornamental Frieze with Acanthus Motif 1561 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Hans Bock the Elder Study for Facade Painting with Figures from Classical Mythology 1571 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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Andrea Casalini Design for Greave Armour of Alessandro Farnese ca. 1576-80 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Anonymous Printmaker after Andrea Palladio Temple of Neptune, Rome (entablature, capital, base and soffit) 1581 woodcut (illustration to Palladio's Quattro Libri dell'Architettura) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Giovanni Domenico Cappellino Design for Cartouche ca. 1620 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Stefano della Bella Study for Floral Volute ca. 1640 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Jupiter crowning the Medici ca. 1642-44 ceiling fresco Sala di Giove, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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Anonymous German Artist Antlers of Red Deer 17th century oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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Anonymous Printmaker after Hendrik Hondius Papist Pyramid 17th century engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel |
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Anonymous German Artist Shell-Shaped Bowl 17th century carved jasper, silver-gilt, turquoises Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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Gianlorenzo Bernini Fountain Figures 1652 terracotta modello (unused design for Piazza Navona) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Charles Le Brun The Rising of Aurora (detail) ca. 1652-56 oil on canvas (ceiling panels) Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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Claude Bellin (designer) Vase with Cupids ca. 1665-67 bronze Chåteau de Versailles |
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Romano Fortunato Carapecchia Design for Fountain ca. 1690 drawing Courtauld Gallery, London |
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Charles Le Brun Design for Guéridon before 1690 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Vienna |
from His Local Habitation without a Name
When we found him drinking our furniture polish
he explained quite simply he had run out of beer.
It was not so much the taste which exhilarated
him, he admitted, as it was the ruddy harvest
color. And finally, there were those words printed
on the label like a rubric, "An end to dust."
– Ernest Sandeen (1994)