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| Luzio Romano Allegorical Figures displaying Arms of Pope Paul III Farnese ca. 1544-45 drawing British Museum |
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| Frans Huys after Cornelis Floris the Younger Grotesque Mask 1555 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Frans Huys after Cornelis Floris the Younger Grotesque Mask 1555 engraving Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Melchior Lorck Acanthus Capital 1561 drawing British Museum |
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| Erasmus Horninck Design for Metalwork ca. 1570 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Willem Claesz Heda Still Life 1638 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Jean Le Pautre Four Ornamental Friezes ca. 1660 etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Gabriel Huquier after Edme Bouchardon Ornamental Vase Design 1737 etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Georg Leopold Hertel Rocaille Designs for Frame and Border Decoration ca. 1750 etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Georg Leopold Hertel Rocaille Designs for Frame and Border Decoration ca. 1750 etching Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Romolo Achille Liverani Design for Painted Wall Decoration, Palazzo Mazzolani in Faenza 1830 ink and watercolor on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Charles Lepec Design for Ornamental Mask ca. 1880 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| William Michael Harnett The Professor's Old Friends 1891 oil on canvas Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
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| André Lhote Still Life ca. 1920 watercolor and gouache on paper Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Josef Hoffmann Design for Ornament ca. 1950-55 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Josef Hoffmann Design for Ornament ca. 1950-55 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| David Hockney David Hockney decorating the Swimming Pool of art dealer André Emmerich 1986 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
Sonnet
My lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady grove,
When immelodious winds but made thee move,
And birds on thee their ramage did bestow.
Sith that dear voice which did thy sounds approve,
Which used in such harmonious strains to flow,
Is reft from Earth to tune those spheres above,
What art thou but a harbinger of woe?
Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,
But orphan wailings to the fainting ear.
Each stop a sigh, each sound draws forth a tear:
Be therefore silent as in woods before;
Or if that any hand to touch thee deign,
Like widowed turtle, still her loss complain.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)