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Nikolai Astrup Still Life 1925 oil on canvas KODE (Art Museums Complex), Bergen, Norway |
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Åke Berg Loshavn 1998 lithograph KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Pierre Bonnard View from Uhlenhorst Ferry House 1913 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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Per Christian Brown Material Colors II 2015 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Sonia Delaunay Color Rhythm 1968 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Jan van Doornik Marriage of the Virgin ca. 1515-20 oil on panel Saint Louis Art Museum |
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Josef Hegenbarth In the Parrot House ca. 1928 oil on board Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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Cornelis van Huynen Portrait of a Woman within a Garland ca. 1685 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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Rune Johansen Boathouse 2014 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Wassily Kandinsky Interior (My Dining Room) 1909 oil on cardboard Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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Emmy Klinker Interior ca. 1920 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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August Macke In the Circus 1911 oil on glass, in original frame Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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Neo Rauch The Gap 2007 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Franz Wilhelm Seiwert Workers 1926 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Sigrid Szetu Untitled 2014 acrylic on canvas KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (designer) Snake amongst Flowers ca. 1895 silk embroidery on linen Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California |
Urania then looked up, hearing humane voices, which she so little expected, as onely death was that she looked for: but then perceived she two young men, whose age might bee judged to bee some seventeene yeares; faces of that sweetnesse, as Venus love could but compare with them, their haire which never had been cut, hung long, yet longer much it must have been, had not the daintie naturall curling somewhat shortned it, which as the wind mov'd, the curles so pretily plaid, as the Sunne-beames in the water; their apparell Goates skinnes cut into no fashion, but made fast about them in that sort, as one might see by their sight they were wild; yet that wildness was govern'd by modesty, their skinne most barre, as armes and legs, and one shoulder, with part of their thighes; but so white was their skinne, as seem'd the Sunne in love with it, would not hurt, nor the bushes so much as scratch; on their feete they had a kind of shooes, which came up to the anckle. Thus they were before the Prime of Shepherdesses, who comming to them, and saluting them, they stept back in wonder to see that beautie, which yet in the masculine they came nerre to . . .
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)