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| Sano di Pietro St Benedict ca. 1460 tempera and gold on panel Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| Raphael and workshop Portrait of Pope Julius II della Rovere (after autograph version, National Gallery, London) ca. 1512 tempera on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Francesco Prata Portrait of a Man ca. 1515-18 oil on panel Accademia Carrara, Bergamo |
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| Domenico Puligo (Domenico Ubaldini) Portrait of a Woman as the Magdalen ca. 1515-19 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio Licinio) St Christopher ca. 1525 oil on canvas Eskanazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington |
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| Francesco Maria Rondani Portrait of a Man holding a Palm ca. 1525 oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Francesco Salviati Adam and Eve ca. 1540 oil on canvas Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
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| Raffaellino da Reggio (Raffaele Motta) Angel with Torch before 1578 drawing British Museum |
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| Marcantonio Prestinari Adonis 1602 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St Bartholomew ca. 1630 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama |
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| Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese) Christ tempted by the Devil ca. 1680-85 oil on canvas Palazzo Spada, Rome |
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| Michele Ridolfi Portrait of contralto Brigida Lorenzani Nerici 1822 oil on canvas Palazzo Mansi, Lucca |
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| Luigi Sabatelli Radamisto defending Zenobia (scene from the Annals of Tacitus) ca. 1840 oil on canvas Museo Civico, Pistoia |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Study for The Bower Meadow ca. 1870-72 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Auguste Renoir Marie-Thérèse Durand-Ruel sewing 1882 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Norman Rockwell The Doll's Bed ca. 1920 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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| Irene Poon Denmark 1993 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
from Song of the Lotos-Eaters
We have had enough of action, and of motion we,
Rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard, when the surge was seething free,
Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea.
Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind,
In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled
Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled
Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world:
Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.
But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song
Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong,
Like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong;
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil,
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil,
Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil;
Till they perish and they suffer – some, 'tis whispered – down in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1832)