Edward Agricola Temple of Neptune, Paestum 1834 oil on canvas Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
Willem von Bemmel Ruin of Classical Temple ca. 1660 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Johann Franciscus Ermels Temple Ruins in Rome ca. 1680 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Ancient Greek Culture Nereid on Seahorse, emerging from the Ocean 380 BC marble pediment figure from the Temple of Asklepios, Epidaurus National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
Francesco Fontanesi Temple of Apollo 1792 drawing (stage design for opera at La Fenice, Venice) Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
Valerio Belli Christ expelling the Money-changers from the Temple ca. 1535 bronze plaquette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Jean de Troy St Peter and St John healing the Paralytic before the Temple of Jerusalem ca. 1687 oil on canvas (modello for altarpiece) Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
James Holland Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome ca. 1840-45 watercolor Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Conrad Martin Metz Scene in the Temple of Apollo 1819 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
Hubert Robert The Old Temple ca. 1787-88 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Hubert Robert Interior of a Funerary Temple 1776 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
Raphael Presentation in the Temple ca. 1502-1504 tempera on panel, transferred to canvas (element from altarpiece predella) Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
Carlo Maratti Augustus closing the Doors of the Temple of Janus, marking the establishment of Peace ca. 1655-57 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée Cleobis and Biton pulling their Mother's Chariot to the Temple of Juno 1764 drawing (study for painting) Morgan Library, New York |
Luigi Vacca Family Group gathered outside a Temple ca. 1820 drawing Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
Jean-François Thomas de Thomon Ruin of the Temple of the Vestals 1790 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
from The Island of Statues
A wriggling thing on the white lake moved,
As the canker-worm on a milk-white rose;
And down I came as a falcon swoops
And down I came as a falcon swoops
When his sinewy wings together close.
I 'lit by the thing, 'twas a shepherd-boy,
Who, swimming, sought the island lone;
Within his clenchèd teeth a sword.
I heard the dreadful monotone
The water-serpent sings his heart
Before a death. O'er wave and bank
I 'lit by the thing, 'twas a shepherd-boy,
Who, swimming, sought the island lone;
Within his clenchèd teeth a sword.
I heard the dreadful monotone
The water-serpent sings his heart
Before a death. O'er wave and bank
I cried the words you bid me cry,
The shepherd raised his arms and sank,
His rueful spirit fluttered by.
The shepherd raised his arms and sank,
His rueful spirit fluttered by.
– W.B. Yeats (1885)