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| Luca Signorelli The Crucifixion (Banner carried by Confraternita dello Spirito Santo di Urbino) 1494 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino |
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| Andrea Solario The Lamentation ca. 1507-1509 drawing (study for painting) British Museum |
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| Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) Christ at the Column ca. 1510 oil on panel (predella fragment) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Vincent Sellaer Christ carrying the Cross 1535 oil on panel Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht |
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| Tobias Stimmer Christ on the Cross 1561 ink and gouache on red prepared paper British Museum |
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| Master of the Egmont Albums (Netherlandish draughtsman) Cavalry Battle 16th century drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Otto van Veen Dead Christ supported by an Angel ca. 1595 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Antonio Tempesta Battle of Horsemen ca. 1612 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Carlo Saraceni Assassins surrounding a Bishop before 1620 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacob van der Ulft The Flagellation 1652 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Cornelis Schut Descent from the Cross ca. 1655 drawing British Museum |
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| Juan de Valdés Leal Flagellation of St Jerome 1657 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla |
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| Gaetano Vascellini Ugolino and his Sons starving in Prison (after a relief formerly attributed to Michelangelo) 1782 engraving British Museum |
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| Thomas Stothard St John the Evangelist supporting the Mourning Virgin before 1834 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Charles Haslewood Shannon The Taking of Christ ca. 1900 watercolor, ink and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Antonio Saura Crucifixion 1959-60 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
That temperamentall dignotions, and conjecture of prevalent humours, may be collected from spots in our nails, we are not averse to concede. But yet not ready to admit sundry divinations, vulgarly raised upon them. Nor doe we observe it verified in others, what Cardan discovered as a property in himself: to have found therein some signes of most events that ever happened unto him. Or that there is much considerable in that doctrine of Cheiromancy, that spots in the top of the nailes doe signifie things past; in the middle, things present; and at the bottome, events to come. That white specks presage our felicity, blew ones our misfortunes. That those in the nail of the thumb have significations of honour, those in the forefinger of riches, and so respectively in other fingers, (according to Planeticall relations, from whence they receive their names) as Tricassus hath taken up, and Picciolus well rejecteth.
– John Evelyn from Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646)