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Rosso Fiorentino (Giovan Battista di Jacopo) Design for Funerary Monument ca. 1539-40 drawing British Museum |
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Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Design for Decoration of an Altar Wall before 1547 watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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Domenico Passignano after Giovanni da Udine Panels of Ornament (after frescoes in the Vatican Loggia) before 1636 drawing British Museum |
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Willem Claesz Heda Banquet Piece with Mince Pie 1635 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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Filippo Passarini Designs for Reliquaries 1698 etching British Museum |
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Filippo Passarini Designs for Ecclesiastical, Royal and Noble Escutcheons 1698 etching British Museum |
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François Roettiers Angels in Clouds crowning Heraldic Shield with Mitre ca. 1730 engraving British Museum |
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Gottfried Bernhard Göz Title-page for series Schrecken des Krieges [Horrors of War] 1742 etching and engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Jean-Eric Rehn Design for Fountain with Tritons and Dolphins before 1793 drawing British Museum |
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Romolo Achille Liverani Design for Easter Sepulchre in Cathedral 1836 ink and watercolor on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Luigi Righetti Design for Reliquary ca. 1825 ink and watercolor on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Charles Lepec Dragon supporting Sprite and surrounding a Frame ca. 1880 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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Charles Lepec Dragon supporting Sprite and surrounding a Frame ca. 1880 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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Charles Ricketts Costume Designs for Wagner's Parsifal (unrealized) ca. 1910 graphite, charcoal and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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David Lance Goines Ravenswood Winery 1979 lithograph (poster) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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Peter Levine Cal Arts Graduation Celebration 1980 screenprint (poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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Lari Pittman Portrait of a Textile (Damask) 2018 cel vinyl paint and spray enamel on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Madrigal
My thoughts hold mortal strife;
I do detest my life,
And with lamenting cries,
Peace to my soul to bring,
Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize;
But he, grim-grinning king,
Who caitives scorns, and doth the blest surprise,
Late having decked with beauty's rose his tomb,
Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)