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| Giovanni Battista Langetti Samson drinking water from supernatural spring issuing from cloven tooth of ass's jawbone used to slay 1,000 Philistines 1665 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi) Samson and Delilah ca. 1634-35 fresco on terracotta Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Gabriel de Saint-Aubin Samson pulling down the Pillars of the Temple 1767 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Rex Whistler Samson pulling down the Temple of the Philistines 1928 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Pompeo Batoni Hagar and the Angel 1776 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Francesco Coghetti Angel appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness 1846 oil on canvas Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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| Anonymous Roman Painter Angel appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness 17th century oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| Herman van Swanevelt Hagar and the Angel ca. 1635-36 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Odilon Redon Hagar and Ishmael 1866 drawing British Museum |
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| Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) Elijah in the Desert ca. 1543 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Jacob Jacobsz van Geel Wooded Landscape with Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta before 1635 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Rutilio Manetti Elijah reviving the Dead Son of the Widow of Sarepta ca. 1625 oil on canvas Collezioni della Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena |
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| Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (il Morazzone) Dream of Elijah before 1625 oil on canvas Museo Diocesano, Milan |
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| Cosimo Ulivelli Prophet Elijah carried to Heaven ca. 1685 drawing (fresco study) British Museum |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Elijah ascending in the Fiery Chariot ca. 1490-1500 bronze plaquette Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini Bathsheba ca. 1708-1711 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| Jacopo Zucchi Bathsheba Bathing ca. 1573-74 oil on copper Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
from Address for a Prize-Day
Imagine to yourselves a picked body of angels, all qualified experts on the human heart, a Divine Commission, arriving suddenly one day at Dover. After some weeks in London, they separate, one passing the petrol pumps along the Great North Road, leaving the dales on his left hand, to take all rain-wet Scotland for his special province, one to the furnace-crowded Midlands, another to the plum-rich red-earth valley of the Severn, another to the curious delta-like area round King's Lynn, another to Cornwall where granite resists the sea and our type of thinking ends, and so on. And then when every inch of the ground has been carefully gone over, every house inspected, they return to the Capital again to compare notes, to collaborate on a complete report, which made, they depart as quietly as they came. Beauty of the scenery apart, would you not feel some anxiety as to the contents of that report? Do you consider their statistics as to the average number of lost persons to the acre would be a cause for self-congratulation? Take a look round this hall, for instance. What do you think? What do you think about England, this country of ours where nobody is well?
– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)