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| Lucas van Leyden Allegorical Composition ca. 1515 drawing British Museum |
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| Michelangelo Buonarroti Sheet of Studies for the Sistine Ceiling ca. 1511-12 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Michelangelo Buonarroti The Epifania ca. 1550-53 drawing (larger-than-life cartoon for a work to be painted by another artist) British Museum |
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| Monogrammist A.W. (German artist) Foreshortened Figure 1567 watercolor, gouache and ink on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacob Jordaens Study of Model before 1678 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacob Jordaens Study of Torso before 1678 drawing British Museum |
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| Victor-Honoré Janssens Half-Length Figure Study ca. 1700 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| François Le Moyne Study for Painting, Hercules and Omphale 1724 drawing British Museum |
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| Nicolas-Auguste Leroy after Charles-Paul Landon Jupiter et Io ca. 1800-1810 hand-colored engraving British Museum |
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| Jean-François Millet L'Homme appuyé sur sa bêche ca. 1850-55 etching British Museum |
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| Jean-François Millet Woman at a window before 1875 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-François Millet Woman with cow ca. 1852 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-François Millet Youth reclining on a bank before 1875 drawing British Museum |
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| Henri Lehmann Studies of Child on Mother's Lap 1854 drawing (study for painting) British Museum |
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| Carl Gutherz Model Study 1888 oil on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| William Sergeant Kendall Transition (Daphne) ca. 1900 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Luc-Albert Moreau Le Knock-Out 1928 lithograph British Museum |
from On Dreams
Many dreames are made out of sagacious exposition, and from the signature of their subjects: carrying their interpretation in their fundamentall sense and mysterie of similitude; whereby hee that understands upon what naturall fundamentall, every notionall dependeth, may by symbolicall adaptation hold a readie way to read the characters of Morpheus. In dreames of such a nature, Artemidorus, Achmet, and Astrampsychius, from Greeck, Aegyptian, and Arabian oneirocriticisme, may hint some interpretation, who while wee read of a Ladder in Jacobs dreame will tell us that Ladders and scalarie ascents signifie preferment, and while wee consider the dreame of Pharaoh, do teach us, that rivers overflowing speake plentie, leane oxen famine and scarcitie. And therefore it was butt reasonable in Pharaoh to demand the interpretation from his magitians, who being Aegyptians, should have been well versed in symbols and the hieroglyphicall notions of things. The greatest tyrant in such divinations was Nabuchodonosor, while beside the interpretation hee demanded the dreame itself; which being probably determined by divine immission, might escape the common roade of phantasmes, that might have been traced by Satan.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)