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| Master of 1518 Descent of the Holy Spirit ca. 1518 oil on panel National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| Master of the Antwerp Adoration Beheading of John the Baptist ca. 1520 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Bernard van Orley Virtue of Patience (detail of central panel of triptych) 1521 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Vincent Sellaer Antiope with Jupiter as Satyr and their children Amphion and Zethus ca. 1540 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Judgment of Paris ca. 1597-99 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Sebastian Vrancx Flemish Festival ca. 1590-1610 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Gérard Douffet Discovery of the True Cross by St Helena 1624 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Gérard Douffet Taking of Christ ca. 1620 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Abraham Janssens Naiads filling Cornucopia before 1632 oil on canvas Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| David Teniers the Younger Entry of Don Juan of Austria into Brussels ca. 1657 oil on canvas (tapestry design) Wallace Collection, London |
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| Adriaen van Stalbemt Nymphs bathing in a Grotto before 1662 oil on panel private collection |
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| Cornelis de Wael Naval Battle between Spaniards and Turks before 1667 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Jan de Herdt Erminia among the Shepherds (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso) 1667 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jan de Herdt Mortally-wounded Clorinda baptized by Tancred (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso) 1667 oil on canvas Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic |
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| Arnould de Vuez Telemachus relates his adventures to Calypso (scene from The Adventures of Telemachus by François Fénelon) ca. 1699 oil on canvas private collection |
from Ulysses
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle, –
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1833)