The Last Supper (Tintoretto)
1594 · Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
The table runs off on a steep diagonal into a smoky hall where servants clear plates and the lamp smoke thickens into angels.
★ 7.6
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The Cardsharps
1594 · Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
One boy has a card hidden behind his back and his older partner signals the count on his fingers. It got Caravaggio his first patron.
★ 6.8
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
The Taming of the Shrew · 1594
Against my soul's pure truth why labor you To make it wander in an unknown field?
The Comedy of Errors · 1594
It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.
The Rape of Lucrece · 1594
Masses
1594
Byrd was a Catholic in Protestant England, and wrote these to be sung in secret at private houses. They were printed without title pages.
★ 2.6
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, Poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
The Rape of Lucrece · 1594
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.
The Rape of Lucrece · 1594
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Titus Andronicus · 1594