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| Jean-Marc Nattier Françoise-Renée de Carbonnel de Canisy, marquise d’Antin 1738 oil on canvas Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris |
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| Ferdinand Bol Crowning of Mirtillo (scene from Il Pastor Fido by Giovan Battista Guarini) 1650 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor) |
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| Jan van Bijlert Shepherd and Shepherdess Singing ca. 1640 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Jan Boeckhorst Flora ca. 1635 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| William Etty Phaedria and Cymochles (scene from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene) ca. 1830 oil on panel Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Bartolomé Estebán Murillo St Rose of Viterbo ca. 1650 oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Léon Bonnat Portrait of Madame Léopold Stern 1879 oil on canvas Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Le Repos 1860 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Venus crowned by Cupid ca. 1605 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Giuseppe Cammarano Family of Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies 1820 oil on canvas Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Antoine-François Callet Two Vestals preparing a Sacrifice 1770 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| attributed to Louis-Ferdinand Elle the Elder Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier ca. 1647 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Jean-Baptiste Greuze Anacreon in his old age crowned by Love ca. 1785 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giuseppe Sacconi after Carlo Dolci Personification of Poetry ca. 1785 gouache on vellum National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Isaac Oliver Miniature Portrait of a Lady in Masque Costume ca. 1610 watercolor and gouache on vellum Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Ludwig Raders Jugend (magazine) 1897 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
from The Journey, the Arrival, and the Dream
Emptying your pockets on the dresser, notice
how carefully you put down all the useless keys
and currency you've brought from home, so terrified
of scratching the patina of the varnished wood
that innocently reflects the lamp, your hand, the curtains,
and the badly painted cherubs on the ceiling,
who ignore you. Light a cigarette and watch
the lazy smoke creep up and tickle them
to no effect and realize you don't
belong here in their world where everything
is much too good for you, and though the angels
will say nothing, they watch everything you do.
– Dana Gioia (1982)