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| Jacob van Schuppen Guitar Player ca. 1700 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Aureliano Miliani Combat between Aeneas and Turnus 1708 oil on canvas private collection |
The Mundane Shell is a vast Concave Earth, an immense
Harden'd shadow of all things upon our Vegetated Earth,
Enlarg'd into dimension & deform'd into indefinite space,
In Twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells, with Chaos
And Ancient Night & Purgatory. It is a cavernous Earth
Of labyrinthine intricacy, twenty-seven folds of opakeness,
And finishes where the lark mounts: here Milton journeyed
In that Region call'd Midian among the Rocks of Horeb;
For travellers from Eternity pass outward to Satan's seat,
But travellers to Eternity pass inward to Golgonooza.
– from Milton: A Poem (1804) by William Blake
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| Jan Frans van Bloemen Landscape in Latium ca. 1735 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jan Frans van Bloemen Landscape in Latium ca. 1735 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| attributed to Philippe Mercier Pierrot catching a fly ca. 1740-50 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| François Boucher Mill at Charenton 1758 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Gavin Hamilton Death of Lucretia ca. 1763-67 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| José del Castillo Allegory of Astronomy ca. 1775 oil on canvas Prado, Madrid |
He saw the Cruelties of Ulro and he wrote them down
In iron tablets; and his Wives' & Daughters' names were these:
Rahab and Tirzah & Milcah & Malah & Noah & Hoglah.
They sat rang'd round him as the rocks of Horeb round the land
Of Canaan, and they wrote in thunder, smoke and fire
His dictate; and his body was the Rock Sinai, that body
Which was on earth born to corruption; & the six Females
Are Hor & Peor & Bashan & Abarim & Lebanon & Hermon.
Seven rocky masses terrible in the Desarts of Midian.
– from Milton: A Poem (1804) by William Blake
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Italian landscape with stairs ca. 1775-80 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Joshua Reynolds Portrait of James, 7th Earl of Lauderdale ca. 1759-61 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Mrs Robinson ca. 1784 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Portrait of the singer Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as Muse 1780-81 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale 1780-81 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Francisco Goya Portrait of Senora Ceán-Bermudez 1795 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |