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| Ghitta Caiserman Shells 1980 hand-colored lithograph Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Ghitta Caiserman Self Portrait 1966 acrylic on paper Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Ghitta Caiserman Street Scene 1948 oil on panel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Ghitta Caiserman Figure 1978 acrylic on panel Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of Marguerite de Sève 1729 oil on canvas Timken Museum of Art, San Diego |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of James IV Roettiers de La Tour ca. 1730 oil on canvas Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of a Young Nobleman and his Tutor 1685 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of an Officer ca. 1714-15 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Baptism of Christ 1602 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Rest ont he Flight into Egypt 1592 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Studies of a Scribe ca. 1595 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Kneeling Bishop before 1651 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan Lievens Portrait of artist Daniel Seghers ca. 1640-50 woodcut Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Jan Lievens Childhood and Fire (series, Ages of Man and The Elements) ca. 1623-25 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Jan Lievens Youth and Air (series, Ages of Man and The Elements) ca. 1623-25 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Jan Lievens Old Age and Water (series, Ages of Man and The Elements) ca. 1623-25 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
from The Sea and the Mirror
[Prospero to Ariel]:
The extravagant children, who lately swaggered
Out of the sea like gods, have, I think, been soundly hunted
By their own devils into their human selves:
To all, then, but me, their pardons. Alonso's heaviness
Is lost; and weak Sebastian will be patient
In future with his slothful conscience – after all, it pays;
Stephano is contracted to his belly, a minor
But a prosperous kingdom; stale Trinculo receives,
Out of the sea like gods, have, I think, been soundly hunted
By their own devils into their human selves:
To all, then, but me, their pardons. Alonso's heaviness
Is lost; and weak Sebastian will be patient
In future with his slothful conscience – after all, it pays;
Stephano is contracted to his belly, a minor
But a prosperous kingdom; stale Trinculo receives,
Gratis, a whole fresh repertoire of stories, and
Our younger generation its independent joy.
Our younger generation its independent joy.
Their eyes are big and blue with love; its lighting
Makes even us look new: yes, to-day it all looks so easy.
Will Ferdinand be as fond of a Miranda
Familiar as a stocking? Will Miranda who is
No longer a silly lovesick little goose,
When Ferdinand and his brave world are her profession,
Go into raptures over existing at all?
Will Ferdinand be as fond of a Miranda
Familiar as a stocking? Will Miranda who is
No longer a silly lovesick little goose,
When Ferdinand and his brave world are her profession,
Go into raptures over existing at all?
Probably I over-estimate their difficulties;
Just the same, I am very glad I shall never
Be twenty and have to go through that business again,
The hours of fuss and fury, the conceit, the expense.
Just the same, I am very glad I shall never
Be twenty and have to go through that business again,
The hours of fuss and fury, the conceit, the expense.
– W.H. Auden (1942-44)