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| Giambologna Bathing Venus ca. 1585 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giambologna Allegory of Astronomy ca. 1585 gilt-bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giambologna Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar ca. 1575-80 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giambologna Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1578-80 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Cooper's Hill
Here was that charter sealed, wherein the Crown
All marks of arbitrary power lays down:
Tyrant and slave, those names of hate and fear,
The happier style of king and subject bear,
Happy, when both to the same centre move,
When kings give liberty, and subjects love.
Therefore not long in force this charter stood;
Wanting that seal, it must be sealed in blood.
The subjects armed, the more their princes gave,
But this advantage took, the more to crave,
Till kings by giving, give themselves away,
And even that power that should deny, betray.
"Who gives constrained, but his own fear reviles,
Nor thanked, but scorned, nor are they gifts, but spoils."
And they, whom no denial can withstand,
Seem but to ask, while they indeed command.
Thus all to limit royalty conspire,
While each forgets to limit his desire,
Till kings like old Antaeus by their fall,
Being forced, their courage from despair recall.
– Sir John Denham (1642)
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| Giambologna Mercury ca. 1585 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giambologna Lion (after the antique marble Medici Lions) ca. 1590 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Antonio Susini after Giambologna Two Figures from Abduction of Sabines group ca. 1580 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Antonio Susini after Giambologna Hercules battling the Centaur Eurytion ca. 1600 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Antonio Susini Centaur Nessus abducting Dejanira ca. 1590 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Antonio Susini Striding Horse ca. 1590 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Putto with a Goose ca. 1515-20 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Seated Pan ca. 1530 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Satyr Drinking ca. 1515-20 bronze statuette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Oil Lamp in the form of Donkey Head ridden by a Dwarf ca. 1500-1520 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |