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| Hippolyte Flandrin Moses commanding the Waters to cover the Egyptian Host 1858 oil on cardboard (modello for painting, Saint-Germain des Près, Paris) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Camillo Rusconi Monument to Pope Gregory XIII 1716-17 terracotta modello Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Franz Anton Maulbertsch The Holy Trinity ca. 1780-90 oil on canvas (modello for altarpiece) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Federico Zuccaro The Calumny of Apelles ca. 1569 drawing (modello for painting) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Francisque Duret (François-Joseph Duret) Chactas with the corpse of Atala (protagonists of Chateaubriand's novella, Atala) ca. 1835 terracotta modello Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Lorenzo Bartolini Countess Marina Dmitrievna Gur'eva 1821 plaster modello for marble statue Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Jean-Baptiste Corneille Mythological Scene before 1695 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Hôtel de Sagonne) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Corrado Giaquinto The Annunciation ca. 1750 oil on canvas (sketch) Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Moritz von Schwind Scenes from Goethe's Faust ca. 1850 drawing (modello for painting) Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Louis-Claude Vassé Study for Sleeping Shepherd ca. 1745 terracotta modello High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Martyrdom of St Livinus ca. 1633-35 oil on panel (modello for altarpiece) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Daniel Neuberger Scene of Abduction 1670 watercolor (modello for wax relief) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Nicolas-André Monsiaux Death of the painter Raphael 1804 drawing (modello for now-lost painting) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Joseph Mages Conversion of St Augustine ca. 1760 oil on canvas (modello for now-lost fresco) Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| François Rude Bust of Hebe ca. 1848-50 terracotta modello for marble sculpture High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Joseph Chinard Bust Portrait of Juliette Récamier ca. 1801-1802 terracotta modello for marble sculpture Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
What is this portent? What does it shadow forth?
Have Heaven and Earth in dreadful marriage lain?
What shall the allotted season bring to birth?
This blind old ragged, rambling beggar-man
Calls curses upon cities, upon the great,
And scatters at his pleasure rich estate.
Thunder has stirred the hair upon my head.
What horror comes to birth? What shall be found,
Calls curses upon cities, upon the great,
And scatters at his pleasure rich estate.
Thunder has stirred the hair upon my head.
What horror comes to birth? What shall be found,
That travail finished, on the lowly bed?
Never in vain the dreadful thunder sounds,
Never in vain the dreadful thunder sounds,
Nor can the living lightning flash in vain;
Heaven has borne a child and shrieks from pain.
Once more that dreadful sound! God pity us
When all is finished on the bed of earth,
Nor hold us all unclean for Oedipus.
When all is finished on the bed of earth,
Nor hold us all unclean for Oedipus.
Whatever fate maternal sky bring forth,
Pity Colonna, nor lay us under ban
Because of Oedipus the beggar-man.
Come, King of Athens, father of the land –
Whether at Poseidon's altars and the still
Unfinished sacrifice, or close at hand –
A blind old beggar-man proclaims God's will,
Proclaims a blessing on the land and us;
Come, King of Athens, come, King Theseus.
Pity Colonna, nor lay us under ban
Because of Oedipus the beggar-man.
Come, King of Athens, father of the land –
Whether at Poseidon's altars and the still
Unfinished sacrifice, or close at hand –
A blind old beggar-man proclaims God's will,
Proclaims a blessing on the land and us;
Come, King of Athens, come, King Theseus.
– Sophocles, chorus from Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC), translated by W.B. Yeats (1934)