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| Peter Paul Rubens Defeat and Death of Maxentius (tapestry design) ca. 1622 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Daniele da Volterra Descent from the Cross (copy of fresco in the church of Trinità dei Monti in Rome) 17th century oil on canvas Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| attributed to Leonello Spada Christ disputing with the Doctors before 1622 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Gaspar de Crayer Sketch for The Triumph of Scipio Africanus 1634 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Abduction of Europa ca. 1634-37 oil on canvas National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset |
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| Samuel van Hoogstraten Young Man reaching for his Cap before 1678 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Berchet Nymphs and Satyrs ca. 1690 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
from Certain Phenomena of Sound
Eulalia, I lounged on the hospital porch,
On the east, sister and nun, and opened wide
A parasol, which I had found, against
The sun. The interior of a parasol,
It is a kind of blank in which one sees.
So seeing, I beheld you walking, white,
Gold-shined by the sun, perceiving as I saw
That of that light Eulalia was the name.
Then I, Semiramide, dark-syllabled,
Contrasting our two names, considered speech.
You were created of your name, the word
Is that of which you were the personage.
There is no life except in the word of it.
I write Semiramide and in the script
I am and have a being and play a part.
You are that white Eulalia of the name.
– Wallace Stevens (1942)
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| Luigi Vanvitelli St Cecilia before 1773 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| Henry Fuseli Friar Puck ca. 1789 oil on canvas Tabley House, Cheshire |
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| William Etty Manlius hurled from the Rock 1818 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Ford Madox Brown Manfred on the Jungfrau (illustration to Lord Byron's Manfred) ca. 1841-61 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Pyrrhic Dance 1869 oil on panel Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| George Frederic Watts The Rider on the Pale Horse (from series The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) ca. 1878 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Robert Bevan Showing at Tattersall's ca. 1919 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Francis Bacon Three Figures and Portrait 1975 oil and pastel on canvas Tate Modern, London |