Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) Death of Hippolytus ca. 1490-1510 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl ca. 1500 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Piero di Cosimo Adoration of the Child ca. 1500 tempera on panel Galleria Borghese, Rome |
Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto) Jupiter and Antiope ca. 1509 detached fresco (ceiling panel) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto) Pan, Bacchus and Silenus ca. 1509 detached fresco (ceiling panel) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Anonymous Flemish Artist Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus ca. 1545 silver-gilt medallion Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
Romulo Cincinnato Noah and his Family making Burnt Offerings 1555 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
Pellegrino Tibaldi Odysseus blinding Polyphemus ca. 1560 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Anonymous Italian Artist after Annibale Carracci Clytie with Cupid ca. 1630-50 oil on panel Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
Philippe de Champaigne Christ and the Samaritan Woman ca. 1650 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
Francesco Albani Creation of Eve ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
Gaspard Dughet Landscape with Figures on a Road ca. 1650-60 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Jean Henry Alexandre Pernet Roman Ruins with Fishermen ca. 1785 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Truth and Wisdom descending to Earth 1794 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Johannes Geisenhof Modello for Dome Painting 1799 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
William Wyon Royal Academy of Arts Medal (with the Belvedere Torso) 1874 silver Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
I am come to cry with you, woman,
My hair is unwound and unbound;
I remember him ploughing his field,
Turning up the red side of the ground,
And building his barn on the hill
With the good mortared stone;
O! we'd have pulled down the gallows
Had it happened in Enniscrone!
– W.B. Yeats (1902)