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| Sigmund Abeles Bedridden Sculptor before 1963 drawing Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Gregory Crewdson Seated Woman on Bed 2013 inkjet print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous German Painter Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously replacing a Leg ca. 1515 oil on panel Landesmuseum, Württemberg |
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| William Eggleston Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi) 1970 dye transfer print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Vanessa Bell Bedroom, Gordon Square 1912 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Philip Reisman Bed Time 1928 etching Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Thea Proctor Woman seated on Bed ca. 1940 drawing Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Edvard Munch Woman seated on Bed 1916 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernandez) Fire and Smoke in Gramsci's Bed 1997 watercolor on paper NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Frank Auerbach Figure on a Bed 1967-70 oil on board Tate Modern, London |
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| Antonio Bellucci Antiochus and Stratonice ca. 1690-1710 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft, Hessen Kassel |
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| Jean-Charles Flipart after Pietro Longhi Venetian Lady rising from Bed 1748 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Dickson Batten Snowdrop and the Seven Little Men 1897 tempera on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Odoardo Fialetti Venus, Vulcan and Cupid before 1638 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Martha Ryther Reading in Bed 1943 oil on glass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Salman Toor Bedroom Boy 2019 oil on panel Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Femme au lit, profil, au petit lever 1896 lithograph Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
from Virgil's Gnat
Ne ought the whelky pearles esteemeth hee,
Which are from Indian seas brought far away:
But with pure brest from carefull sorrow free,
On the soft grasse his limbs doth oft display,
In sweete spring time when flores varietie
With sundrie colours paints the sprincled lay;
There lying all at ease, from guile or spight,
With pype of fennie reedes doth him delight.
There he, Lord of himselfe, with palme bedight,
His looser locks doth wrap in wreath of vine:
There his milk dropping Goats be his delight,
And fruitefull Pales, and the forrest greene,
And darkesome caves in pleasaunt vallies pight,
Wheras continuall shade is to be scene,
And where fresh springing wells as christall neate,
Do always flow, to quench his thirstie heate.
O who can lead then a more happie life,
Than he, that with cleane minde and hart sincere,
No greedy riches knowes nor bloudie strife,
No deadly fight of warlick fleete doth feare,
Ne runs in perill of foes cruell knife,
That in the sacred temples he may reare,
A trophee of his glittering spoyles and treasure,
Or may abound in riches above measure.
Of him his God is worshipt with his sythe,
And not with skill of craftsmen polished:
He joyes in groves, and makes himself full blythe,
With sondrie flowres in wilde fieldes gathered;
Ne frankincens he from Panchæa buyth,
Sweete quiet harbours in his harmeles head,
And perfect pleasure buildes her joyous bowre,
Free from sad cares, that rich mens hearts devowre.
This all his care, this all his whole indeavour,
To this his minde and senses he doth bend,
How he may flow in quiets matchles treasour,
Content with any food that God doth send;
And how his limbs, resolv'd with idle leisour,
Unto sweete sleepe he may securely lend,
In some coole shadow from the scorching heat,
The whiles his flock their chawed cuds do eate.
– Appendix Vergiliana, translated by Edmund Spenser (1591)