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The Prince of Egypt and the Sphinx On the northern and the southern roads, He reveled, shooting at a bronze target, Pursuing lions and vast herds of beasts Until his chariot was a gold blur And hor…

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Bramantino, “The Risen Christ” (1490). My friend Marly Youmans and I were talking about this on Twitter last night, and I can’t improve on her description: “A beautiful quality of estrangement from the ordinary. Marmoreal–almost architectural! But a stranger substance. Moon-metal!”

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In the 1600s and 1700s, it was common for printmakers to depict tradespeople clothed in their wares. Glassmakers were no exception. See this glassmaker wearing some of her wares, including ornaments and bottles, in “Curious and Curiouser: Surprising Finds from the Rakow Library,” now on display at the Rakow Library.

Une verriere / Eine Glassmacherin (A female glassmaker) Martin Engelbrecht (German, 1684–1756) Augsburg, Germany: 1730 CMGL 129856

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And that’s a Mercer postcard.

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Marly Youmans, “The Thursday of Mysteries”

After Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles by Meister des Hausbuches, 1475. Dim clashing measures like muffled cymbals As halos make the music of the spheres— The apostles are crowded on the pews, Some watching and some not as Jesus Christ In his halo leafing with three branches Gestures upward and to the water bowl That is like another halo, fallen To the floor and waiting for the maundy Foot of innocent and guilty alike. The room looks like some holy carpenter’s Medieval caravan, all fitted out With paneling and mullions with crown glass; In the unfolding distance, see the stairs Slanting leftward over the black archway That might mark entrance to a waiting tomb. There’s Judas, all his facial lines tugged down, And on a shelf a platter like some lost Halo, unneeded, there for change of mind.