Mariotto Albertinelli Sacrifices of Abel and of Cain ca. 1510 oil on panel (predella fragment) Harvard Art Museums |
Guido Reni Cain slaying Abel ca. 1617-20 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
Artemisia Gentileschi Judith beheading Holofernes ca. 1620 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
Filippo Vitale Judith and Holofernes ca. 1635 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
attributed to Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne Joseph and Potiphar's Wife ca. 1670 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
Francesco Providoni Joseph and Potiphar's Wife ca. 1685-95 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Lambert Jacobsz Elisha refusing Naaman's Gifts ca. 1628-33 oil on canvas Leiden Collection, New York |
Gaspare Diziani Moses transforming the Rod of Aaron into a Serpent ca. 1740 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner Sacrifice of Abraham ca. 1755-60 oil on canvas (study for mezzotint) Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
Simone Brentana David cutting a piece from Saul's robe ca. 1710-15 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Cesare Beseghi The Anger of Saul 1844 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Simon Vouet Martha rebuking Mary ca. 1621 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Odilon Redon Christ and the Samaritan Woman (The White Flower Bouquet) ca. 1895 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Matthias Stom The Taking of Christ ca. 1630-32 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi) Noli me tangere ca. 1525-30 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Giacinto Brandi Conversion of St Paul ca. 1660 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
from Parnell's Funeral
Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through,
A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang
A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow;
A woman, and an arrow on a string;
A pierced boy, image of a star laid low.
That woman, the Great Mother imaging,
A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang
A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow;
A woman, and an arrow on a string;
A pierced boy, image of a star laid low.
That woman, the Great Mother imaging,
Cut out his heart. Some master of design
Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin.
– W.B. Yeats (1935)
Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin.
– W.B. Yeats (1935)