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| attributed to Pierre Gobert Abduction of Europa ca. 1700 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| François Boucher Abduction of Europa ca. 1732-34 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Herman van der Mijn Danaë and the Shower of Gold ca. 1725 oil on panel Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Essex |
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| Giacomo Bolognini Perseus and Andromeda before 1735 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Louis Chéron Hercules slaying the Hydra ca. 1710 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Thomas Stothard Orestes hanging up the Shield of Agamemnon ca. 1790 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Telemachus and Thermosiris 1770 oil on copper National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
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| attributed to Jean-Claude Naigeon Numa consulting the Nymph Egeria ca. 1791 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Jean-Joseph Taillasson Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia 1787 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
from The Book of Philip Sparrow
Of God nothynge els crave I
But Phyllypes soule to kepe
From the marees deepe
Of Acherontes well,
That is a flode of hell;
And from the great Pluto,
The prynce of endles wo;
And from foule Alecto,
With vysage blacke and blo;
And from Medusa, that mare,
That lyke a fende doth stare;
And from Megeras edders,
For rufflynge of Phillips fethers,
And from her fyry sparklynges,
For burnynge of his wynges;
And from the smokes sowre
Of Proserpinas bowre;
And from the dennes darke
Wher Cerberus doth barke,
Whom Theseus dyd afraye,
Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
As famous poetes say.
* * *
Wolde God I had Zenophontes,
Or Socrates the wyse
To shew me their devyse,
Moderately to take
This sorrow that I make
For Phylyp Sparowes sake!
So fervently I shake,
I fele my body quake;
So urgently I am brought
Into carefull thought.
Like Andromach, Hectors wyfe,
Was wery of her lyfe,
Whan she had lost her joye,
Noble Hector of Troye;
In lyke maner also
Encreaseth my dedly wo,
For my sparowe is go.
– John Skelton (ca. 1510)
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| David Allan The Continence of Scipio 1774 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Johann Georg Platzer The Death of Cleopatra before 1761 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Antonio Zucchi Socrates drinking the Hemlock 1767 oil on canvas National Trust, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire |
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| attributed to Guy Head Juno borrowing the Girdle of Venus ca. 1771 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Francis Hayman Mercury delivering a Message to Jupiter and Juno, with Neptune in attendance (after an antique relief in Museo Angelonio, Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
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| Robert Fagan Menelaus supporting the Body of Patroclus (after antique sculptures known as the Pasquino Group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas (grisaille) National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |