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Adam Camerarius Portrait of a Young Man in Antique Dress ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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Kristin Capp Annie Hofer 1996 pigment print Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin |
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Jacques Beltrand Descartes ca. 1920-40 chiaroscuro woodcut Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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Ilse Bing Portrait of a Woman 1934 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Ernest Baker Benito Mussolini 1941 gouache on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Rufus J. Anson Portrait of Sarah C. Wright, age 13 1858 daguerreotype Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Federico Barocci Portrait of Monsignor Giuliano della Rovere ca. 1595 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Friedrich Bury Kurprinzessin Auguste von Hessen-Kassel 1808 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft, Hessen-Kassel |
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Jacques-François Arnaud Portrait of Pierre-François Pillard ca. 1765 oil on canvas Musée Saint-Loup, Troyes |
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Marcello Bacciarelli Self Portrait with Papal Medal ca. 1800 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Portrait of a Young Woman 1827 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Hendrick Bloemaert Virgin and Child ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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Giovanni Cariani Portrait of a Man with Gold Chain ca. 1525-30 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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Samuel Woolf Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins 1933 charcoal on paper (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Boris Artzybasheff Portrait of architect Minoru Yamasaki 1962 tempera on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Pieter Barbiers III Portrait of Maria Geertruida Snabilié 1826 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Twenthe |
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William Yang Patrick White #1, Living Room, Martin Road 1988 gelatin silver print Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
from The Thebiad
Sacred thro' time, from age to age it stood,
A wide-spread, gloomy, venerable wood:
Older than man, and ev'ry sylvan maid,
Who haunts the grot, or skims along the glade.
Stretch'd o'er the ground the tow'ring oaks were seen,
The foodful beech, and cypress ever green:
The nuptial elm, and mountain-holm entire,
The pitchy tree that feeds the fun'ral fire:
The resin soft, and solitary yew,
For ever dropping with unwholesome dew;
The poplar trembling o'er the silver flood,
The warrior ash that reeks in hostile blood,
Th' advent'rous firr that sails the vast profound,
And pine, fresh bleeding from th' odorous wound –
All at one time the nodding forests bend,
And with a crash together all descend.
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Walter Harte (1727)