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Antonio Vassilacchi (Antonio Aliense) Allegorical Figures flanking Lion of St Mark ca. 1584 drawing British Museum |
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Antonio Tempesta Life of St Anthony Abbot 1597 etching (title page) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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Friedrich Sustris Allegorical Figures of Justice and Power ornamenting an Archway before 1599 drawing (print study for frontispiece) British Museum |
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Laurens Jacobsz van der Vinne Exotic Flowers with Serpent ca. 1740-42 watercolor and gouache on paper Museum Boerhaave, Leiden |
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Thomas Stothard Caryatids ca. 1799 drawing British Museum |
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Anonymous Italian Gemcutter after Bertel Thorvaldsen Night ca. 1815-20 malachite cameo set in gold (copied from Thorvaldsen's marble relief panel) British Museum |
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Flowers in a Porcelain Vase 1839 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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Bertha Wegmann Blue Fan, Green Jug, Apple Blossoms ca. 1885 oil on panel Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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Percyval Tudor-Hart (designer) and Léo Belmonte (weaver) Upholstered Armchair 1926-27 wool and cotton tapestry on pre-existing walnut frame Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
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William Winter Chandelier - Whitney Museum - 10 West 8th Street 1932 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Joseph Stella Serenade - A Christmas Fantasy 1937 oil on panel Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Milan Todd Settling Time 1986 screenprint National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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John Valadez Two Vendors 1989 pastel on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington DC |
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Timney Fowler Ltd. (London) Sketchbook 1994 printed silk scarf Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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Margaret Strickland A Night Out With Friends 2008 inkjet print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Stephen Tomasko Untitled (series, Winter Was Hard) 2009 inkjet print Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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Kate Lucey Whitney Hydrangea Hedge at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island 2010 digital photograph Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
Madrigal
Astrea in this time
Now doth not live, but is fled up to heaven;
Or if she live, it is not without crime
That she doth use her power,
And she is no more virgin, but a whore,
Whore prostitute for gold:
For she doth never hold her balance even;
And when her sword is rolled,
The bad, injurious, false she not o'erthrows,
But on the innocent lets fall her blows.
– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)