workshop of Jacques-Louis David Roman Youth with Horse 1824 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
Pellegrino Tibaldi Classical Youth holding a Vessel ca. 1570 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Anonymous German Artist The Magdalensberg Youth ca. 1555 bronze (cast from now-lost Roman original) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Riccio (Andrea Briosco) Youth with Raised Arm ca. 1495 bronze Frick Collection, New York |
Anonymous Italian Artist Torso of Youth ca. 1530 marble (accepted as Roman antiquity until recently) Yale University Art Gallery |
Anonymous Mantuan Artist Striding Youth ca. 1500 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Ancient Greek Culture Dancing Youth 400-350 BC bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Ancient Greek Culture Kouros 490 BC bronze Gallerie Estense, Modena |
Ancient Greek Culture The Bebenburg Youth 3rd century BC marble Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Ancient Roman Culture Youth (The Soranzo Eros) 1st century BC marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Ancient Roman Culture Torso of Youth 2nd century AD marble Princeton University Art Museum |
Ancient Roman Culture Torso of Youth 2nd century AD marble Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Ancient Roman Culture Torso of Youth 1st century BC - 1st century AD marble- Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Ancient Roman Culture Torso of Youth 1st-2nd century AD marble Art Institute of Chicago |
Ancient Roman Culture Torso of Youth 1st-2nd century AD marble (former Chigi Collection, Rome) Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
Ancient Roman Culture Bust of Antinoüs 2nd century AD marble Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
from An Acre of Grass
Grant me an old man's frenzy.
Myself must I remake
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call;
Who beat upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call;
A mind Michael Angelo knew
That can pierce the clouds
Or inspired by frenzy
Shake the dead in their shrouds . . .
– W.B. Yeats (1938)