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| Erhard Altdorfer Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos ca. 1515 oil on panel Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Louis-Simon Boizot Jean Racine 1787 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson Arthur Miller tending his garden in Roxbury, Connecticut 1960 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| John Dugdale Self Portrait with Keats's Death Mask 1999 cyanotype Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edme-Étienne François Gois Corinna 1836 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Otto Greiner Franz Langheinrich mit Frau 1901 lithograph British Museum |
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| Annie Leibovitz Susan Sontag 1991 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Carlo Maratti Saint John the Evangelist 1700 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Mino da Fiesole Diotisalvi Neroni 1464 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Alexander Moffat Iain Crichton Smith 1980 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Denis Peploe Sydney Goodsir Smith ca. 1945 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin Anna Akhmatova 1922 oil on canvas State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg |
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| Hyacinthe Rigaud Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (in purple moiré satin) 1698 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Hendrick de Somer (Enrico Fiammingo) Saint Jerome composing the Latin Bible ca. 1645 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Southworth & Hawes Francis Parkman ca. 1852 daguerreotype National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Pieter Antonie von Verschaffelt Voltaire 1760 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Edouard Vuillard Théodore Duret 1912 oil on cardboard, mounted on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
from On the Death of Donne
The Muses' garden, with pedantic weeds
O'erspread, was purged by thee; the lazy seeds
Of servile imitation thrown away
And fresh invention planted. Thou didst pay
The debts of our penurious bankrupt age,
Licentious thefts, that make poetic rage
A mimic fury, when our souls must be
Possessed, or with Anacreon's ecstasy,
Or Pindar's, not their own; the subtle cheat
Of sly exchanges, and the juggling feat
Of two-edged words, or whatsoever wrong
By ours was done the Greek or Latin tongue,
Thou hast redeemed, and opened us a mine
Of rich and pregnant fancy, drawn a line
Of masculine expression, which, had good
Old Orpheus seen, or all the ancient brood
Our superstitious fools admire and hold
Their lead more precious than thy burnished gold,
Thou hadst been their Exchequer, and no more
They each in other's dust had raked for ore.
– Thomas Carew (1633)