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| Anonymous Italian Artist Susanna and the Elders ca. 1600 oil on slate Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Caravaggio Doubting Thomas ca. 1620-50 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist The athlete Tydeus purifying himself (based on antique cameo) 1767 etching (illustration to edition of Winckelmann) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Hercules with slain Hydra 17th century terracotta statue (half life-size) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Portrait of a Man 16th century terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist Virgin and Child ca. 1440-60 marble relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Hercules Resting, Minerva Trumpeting 17th century drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Roman Artist Abduction of the Sabine Women 16th century drawing (after exterior fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Anonymous Roman Artist Alexander the Great dedicating Altars to Olympian Gods 16th century drawing (after interior fresco by Perino del Vaga) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Roman Artist Lars Porsena and his Court 16th century drawing (after exterior fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Neptune driving Sea-Chariot ca. 1500-1530 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Prometheus animating the First Man ca. 1450-1500 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous Venetian Artist Sleeping Reader 16th century drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Virgin and Child 16th century drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Half-Length Study of a Youth (garzone or studio apprentice) 17th century drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Sheet of Studies 16th century drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Here on a time the earth opened to receive Laodice,* not duly laid to rest, but flying from the violence of the enemy. Unreckonable Time having effaced the monument, Maximus the Proconsul of Asia brought it again to light, and having noticed the girl's bronze tablet lying elsewhere unhonoured, he set it up on this circular barrow.
The painter limned Theodote just as she was. Would his art had failed him and he had given forgetfulness to us who mourn her.
Earth and Ilithyia, one of you brought me to birth, the other covers me. Farewell! I have run the race of each. I depart, not knowing whither I go, for neither do I know who I was or whose or from whence when I came to you.
Our princes, owing to his virtues, promoted Dulcitius to great wealth and proconsular rank; and now that Nature has released him from earth, the immortal gods possess himself, but this enclosure his body.
May he who buried me at the crossroads come to an ill end and get no burial at all; since all the travellers tread on Timon and in death, the portion of all, I alone have no portion of repose.
In this tomb rests strong Panopeus the lion-hunter, the piercer of shaggy-breasted panthers; for a terrible scorpion issuing from a hole in the earth smote his heel as he walked on the hills and slew him. On the ground, alas, lie his poor javelin and spear, to be the playthings of impudent deer.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*one of the fifty daughters of King Priam