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| Pelagio Palagi Birth of Venus ca. 1820 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pelagio Palagi Marriage of Cupid and Psyche ca. 1808 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Pelagio Palagi Cleombrotus ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta ca. 1807-1810 oil on canvas Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna |
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| Pelagio Palagi Mythological Scene ca. 1812 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pelagio Palagi Diana the Huntress 1835 oil on canvas Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna |
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| Egisto Sarri Pompeian Scene 1880 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Egisto Sarri Pompeian Scene - Playtime ca. 1880 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Egisto Sarri Pompeian Scene - First Steps ca. 1880 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Filippo Palizzi Study of an Excavation (Pompei) 1864 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome |
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| Filippo Palizzi Excavation at Pompei 1870 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Annibale Gatti Triumph of Eros ca. 1868 ceiling painting Villa Mimbelli, Livorno |
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| Annibale Gatti Triumph of Eros (detail) ca. 1868 ceiling painting Villa Mimbelli, Livorno |
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| Annibale Gatti Triumph of Eros (detail) ca. 1868 ceiling painting Villa Mimbelli, Livorno |
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| Giovanni Demin Hercules at the Crossroads 1812 ceiling painting Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
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| Giovanni Demin Hercules at the Crossroads (detail) 1812 ceiling painting Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
from Crossroads in the Past
That night the wind stirred in the forsythia bushes,
but it was a wrong one, blowing in the wrong direction.
"That's silly. How can there be a wrong direction?
'It bloweth where it listeth,' as you know, just as we do
when we make love or do something else there are no rules for."
I tell you, something went wrong there a while back.
Just don't ask me what it was. Pretend I've dropped the subject.
No, now you've got me interested, I want to know
exactly what seems wrong to you, how something could
seem wrong to you. In what way do things get to be wrong?
– John Ashbery (2000)