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| Albrecht Dürer Portrait of a Man 1507 drawing British Museum |
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| Albertino Piazza Assumption of the Virgin ca. 1515 oil on panel Denver Art Museum |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder Arcaded Courtyard with Putto ca. 1520-30 engraving (perspective study) British Museum |
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| Jean de Gourmont the Elder Pillared Gallery with Putto ca. 1520-30 engraving (perspective study) British Museum |
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| Juan van der Hamen Bodegón of Sweets 1621 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada |
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| William Michael Harnett Job Lot Cheap 1878 oil on canvas Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Thomas Eakins Samuel Murray as Life Model ca. 1890-92 platinum print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Frederick Peto Women in Tree ca. 1895 modern print from glass negative Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Kenyon Cox The Blessing of Sleep (advertising for Paine's Celery Compound) 1899 lithograph (proof poster) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Marianne Fürst Young Woman with Wreath ca. 1910 linocut Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Prayer of Light 1913 lithograph Städtische Kunstsammlung, Darmstadt |
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| Mabel Dwight Old Aquarium ca. 1926 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Perle Fine Sub-Marine 1948 watercolor and graphite on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ernest Philpot Cloudshadows 1956 oil on board Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| Audrey Flack Tower of Pisa 1971 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Elizabeth Peyton Live to Ride (E.P.) 2003 oil on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Kate Lucey Whitney Warren House / Tunnard Garden - Newport, Rhode Island 2012 digital photograph Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
Noblest bodies are but gilded clay:
Put away
But the precious shining rind,
The inmost rottenness remains behind.
Kings, on earth though gods they be,
Yet in death are vile as we;
He, a thousands' king before,
Now is vassal unto more.
Vermin now insulting lie,
And dig for diamonds in each eye;
Whilst the sceptre-bearing hand
Cannot their inroads withstand.
Here doth one in odours wade
By the regal unction made,
While another dares to gnaw
On that tongue, his people's law.
Fools! ah, fools are we, who so contrive,
And do strive,
In each gaudy ornament
Who shall his corpse in the best dish present.
– Samuel Harding (1640)