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| Roelant Savery Tower of Babel 1602 oil on copper Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| Thomas Ruff jpeg ny02 2004 C-print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Nicholas Nixon View east from Pi Alley, Boston 2008 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anastasia Samoylova Upside-Down House, Orlando 2020 inkjet print private collection |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe Wall with Green Door 1953 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Aldobrando Piacenza St Peter's before 1976 oil on panel Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Larry Schwarm Elevator - Barber County, Kansas 1974 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Willem Schellinks Stonehenge 1662 drawing British Museum |
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| John Singer Sargent Villa Borghese - Temple of Diana ca. 1906-1907 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Isidore Pils Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana in the Roman Forum 1840 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Joe Rock The James McLurg monument (1717) Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh 1990 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Thomas Sandby Whitehall Palace (Holbein Gate at center, Banqueting House at right) ca. 1750 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Hubert Robert Roman Capriccio with the Pantheon and an Embarcadero ca. 1758-60 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Giovanni Battista Piranesi Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome ca. 1773-78 etching Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| John Ruskin The Baptistry, Florence 1872 watercolor and gouache on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Alexander Runciman Tower on the Leonine Wall in the Vatican Gardens ca. 1767-71 ink, chalk, watercolor and gouache on paper British Museum |
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| Jean-Baptiste Roman La Chasse et la Pêche 1826 stone relief on window surround Musée du Louvre |
The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi
Hark! now everything is still,
The screech-owl and the whistler shrill,
Call upon our dame aloud,
And bid her quickly don her shroud!
Much you had of land and rent;
Your length in clay's now competent:
A long war disturbed your mind;
Here your perfect peace is signed.
Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?
Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.
Strew your hair with powders sweet,
Don clean linen, bathe your feet,
And – the foul fiend more to check –
A crucifix let bless your neck:
'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day,
End your groan and come away.
– John Webster, from The Duchess of Malfi (ca. 1613)