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| Pierre Puget Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron 1690 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille |
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| Adrien Dassier Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes 1669 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Henri de Favanne Juno approaches Tethys and Oceanus requesting that Callisto and Arcas (as Ursa Major and Minor) never meet the Waters before 1752 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille |
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| Gérard Lairesse Hermes compels Circe to liberate Odysseus ca. 1670 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Claude Vignon Narcissus ca. 1630 oil on panel Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| François Clouet Diana Bathing ca. 1558-59 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Diana Bathing ca. 1715-16 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Nicolas Mignard Judgment of Midas 1667 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Ker-Xavier Roussel Silenus on an Ass ca. 1925 pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| François Boucher Abduction of Europa 1747 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| François Boucher Death of Meleager 1727 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| François Boucher Vertumnus and Pomona 1740 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Master of the Fontainebleau School Toilette of Venus ca. 1550 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Simon Vouet Toilette of Venus ca. 1640 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Simon Vouet Toilette of Venus ca. 1625-27 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
Don't Cheapen Yourself
You look sleazy tonight
ma said.
Cheap, I said.
I'm doin cheap.
You got any idea
how much it costs
to do cheap these days?
To do gold City of Paris
three-inch platform sandals
and this I. Magnin snake dress?
I'm doin cheap.
You look like a bird, she said
a Halloween bird with red waxed lips.
– In high school
you could either do cheap or Shakespeare,
college prep or a pointy bra,
ratting a bubble haircut
with a toilet brush.
I was not allowed to do high school cheap;
I did blazers and wool skirts
from the Junior League thrift shop.
In high school it was
don't walk in the middle of
Richie, Leelee, and the baby,
you might come between them.
You look like a skag
wearin that black-eyed makeup,
people are gunna think you're cheap.
While I poured red food dye
on my hair
to match my filly's tail for the rodeo,
ma beat her head against the wall,
she said
tryin to make me nice.
I tried real hard,
but the loggers, the Navy guys,
they always hit on me.
Cause you're an easy mark, ma said.
And I played guilty,
I played guilty every time.
But now, I said
now I'm doin cheap.
– Jana Harris (1976)