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| Antoine Vollon Still Life with Cheese ca. 1875-80 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Douglas Volk The Boy with the Arrow 1903 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Georg Vischer Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery 1637 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Jacques Villon Color Perspective 1921 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Victor Vignon Paysanne aux Champs 1882 oil on canvas Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains |
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| Jan Veth Portrait of Clara Veth 1887 oil on panel Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Emilio Vedova Image of Time (Barrier) 1951 tempera on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Carl Van Vechten Louise Hellstrom 1933 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Valentin de Boulogne The Crowning with Thorns ca. 1627-28 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| J.C. Tourtin Sarah Bernhardt ca. 1880 Woodburytype print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Louis Tocqué Portrait of Frederik Christian Krag 1761 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Portrait of a Man ca. 1560-63 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Cheney Brothers (Manchester, Connecticut) Showerproof 1913 discharge-printed silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Abraham Susenier Vanitas Still Life ca. 1660 oil on canvas Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Mark Summers Mozart 1991 ink and watercolor on paper (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jindřich Štýrský Mirror with Hat 1934 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Francesco Stringa after Guercino St Mark ca. 1675-85 oil on canvas Gallerie Estense, Modena |
from Mu'Allaqa
The elephant's trunk unending
From the lightning flashes
In the clouds was Marie Antoinette,
As usual trumpeting.
The greedy suction
Was her tornado vacuuming across the golden Kansas flatness.
Meanwhile the count was talking to the swan.
The swan liked what he was saying and got
Right out of the pond.
Meanwhile, grown men in Afghanistan.
The count had fought in Algeria.
Meanwhile, neon in Tokyo.
Madame la Comtesse waved to us from the top step,
Waved to her count, their swan, their ornamental pond, et moi.
We were a towering cornucopia
Of autumn happiness
And gourmandise rotating counterclockwise,
Backwards towards the guillotine.
– Frederick Seidel (2008)