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| Bertel Thorvaldsen Alexander the Great driving his Chariot (detail) 1812 plaster relief modello Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Bertel Thorvaldsen Hebe ca. 1819-23 plaster modello Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Lorenzo Bartolini Frieze for Sepulchral Monument of Thomas Wilson ca. 1820 plaster relief modello Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye Milo of Croton devoured by a Lion 1819 plaster proof for bronze medallion Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Mathieu Kessels Discus Thrower (detail) 1824-25 plaster modello Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Emil Wolff Achilles Arming 1832 plaster modello Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Innocenzo Fraccaroli Wounded Achilles ca. 1833-35 plaster modello Galleria d'Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Verona |
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| Innocenzo Fraccaroli Wounded Achilles (detail) ca. 1833-35 plaster modello Galleria d'Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Verona |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux La Danse 1868 plaster rendition Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Frederic Leighton Athlete wrestling with a Python ca. 1877 plaster modello Tate Britain |
Head, Heart
Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.
– Lydia Davis, from Varieties of Disturbance (2007)
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| Thomas Eakins Arcadia ca. 1883 plaster relief modello Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Thomas Eakins Youth playing the Pipes 1884 plaster relief modello Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Hamo Thornycroft Sketch for Artemis 1880 plaster and wax Tate Britain |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Les Châtiments (after a poem by Victor Hugo) before 1890 plaster relief modello Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Bacchus consoling Ariadne ca. 1892 plaster modello Art Institute of Chicago |