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| Luca Cambiaso Caritas before 1585 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Luca Cambiaso Study for Evangelist in Spandrel before 1585 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Luca Cambiaso The Road to Calvary before 1585 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Luca Cambiaso Virgin and Child ca. 1560 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Childe Hassam Isles of Shoals 1907 oil on panel Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| Childe Hassam Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir 1909 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Childe Hassam Walk in the Park ca. 1889-90 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum, Colorado |
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| Childe Hassam New England Road ca. 1902 oil on canvas Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| Kenneth Lochhead Park Excursion 2002 oil on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Kenneth Lochhead By the Orchard 1991 oil on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Kenneth Lochhead The Duchess 1991 oil on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Kenneth Lochhead Two Ladies and a Gentleman 1991 oil on canvas Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) The Annunciation ca. 1530-35 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Battle Scene with Lions ca. 1530-40 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Musical Contest of Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1527-30 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Sheet of Studies before 1540 drawing Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
from Part One of The Age of Anxiety
Rosetta thought:
I see in my mind a besieged island,
That island in arms where my home once was.
Round green gardens, down grooves between white
Hawthorn-hedges, long hospital trains
Smoothly slide with their sensitized freight
Of mangled men, moving them homeward
In pain through pastures. In a packed hall
Two vicious rivals, two virtuosos
Appear on one platform and play duets
To war-orphans and widowed ladies,
Grieving in gloves; while to grosser ears
In clubs and cabarets crooners wail
Some miserere modern enough
In its thorough thinness. I think too of
The conquered condition, countries where
Arrogant officers, armed in cars,
Go roaring down roads on the wrong side,
Courts martial meet at midnight with drums,
And pudgy persons pace unsmiling
The quays and stations or cruise the nights
In vans for victims, to investigate
In sound-proof cells the Sense of Honor,
While in turkish baths with towels round them
Imperilled plotters plan in outline
Definitions and norms for new lives,
Half-truths for their times. As tense as these,
Four who are famous confer in a schloss
At night on nations. They are not equal:
Three stand thoughtful on a thick carpet
Awaiting the Fourth who wills they shall
Till, suddenly entering through a side-door,
Quick, quiet, unquestionable as death,
Grief or guilt, he greets them and sits down,
Lord of this life. He looks natural,
He smiles well, he smells of the future,
Odorless ages, an ordered world
Of planned pleasures and passport-control,
Sentry-go, sedatives, soft drinks and
Managed money, a moral planet
Tamed by terror: his telegram sets
Grey masses moving as the mud dries.
Many have perished; more will.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)