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Old Master Studies
Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney

These old master studies and copies were created with pencil or charcoal on paper and oil on linen.
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"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."
--Romans 15:4


pencil
after Bernard Siegfried Albinus


"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
--Charles Darwin (1809-1882)


pencil
after Leonardo da Vinci


"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--John Adams, 1798


pencil
after Leonardo da Vinci


"No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon, as the Bible."
--John Quincy Adams, 1812


oil
Oil Painting after a Rembrandt Etching


"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)


char. char.
after Rodin


Why should'st Thou bow Thine awful breast to see
   What mine own madnesses have done with me?
--Richard Crashaw (1612-1649),
from "Charitas Numia, or the Dear Bargain"


char.
after Frederick Lord Leighton


"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
--Psalms 34:18


char.
after Michelangelo


O world of wonders! (I can say no less)
That I should be preserv’d in that distress
That I have met with here! O blessed be
That hand that from it hath delivered me!
Dangers in darkness, Devils, Hell, and Sin,
Did compass me, while I this Vale was in:
Yea, Snares, and Pits, and Traps, and Nets did lie
My path about, that worthless silly I
Might have been catch’d, intangled, and cast down;
But since I live, let Jesus wear the Crown.
--John Bunyan (1628-1688), in The Pilgrim’s Progress


pencil
after Leonardo da Vinci


"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)


pencil
after Michelangelo


"You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains -- can prove to you that these are characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient states -- Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome."
--Oswald Spengler in Decline of the West (1926)


char.
from Ancient Greek Vases and Sculpture


I

Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne,
   Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt thou forgive that sinne; through which I runne,
   And do run still: though still I do deplore?
      When thou has done, thou hast not done,
            For, I have more.

II

Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I have wonne
   Others to sinne? and, made my sinne their doore?
Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I did shunne
   A yeare, or two: but wallowed in, a score?
      When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
            For I have more.

III

I have a sinne of feare, that when I have spunne
   My last thred, I shall perish on the shore;
But sweare by thy selfe, that at my death thy sonne
   Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
      And, having done that, Thou hast done,
            I fear no more.

-- "A Hymn to God the Father" by John Donne (1572-1631)


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