workshop of Guercino St Sebastian after 1634 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Paul Delaroche St Sebastian ca. 1820-30 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
Palma il Giovane St Sebastian ca. 1612 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
Anonymous Italian Artist St Sebastian tended by St Irene 17th century oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
Giambattista Tiepolo Education of the Virgin ca. 1720-22 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
Francesco Capella The Annunciation ca. 1760-70 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
Bartolomeo Biscaino Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1655 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Giovanni Vangembes Holy Family with St Anthony of Padua and St Clare ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
Eugène Delacroix Christ at the Column 1852 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
Corrado Giaquinto Christ at the Column ca. 1750-60 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Pierre Subleyras The Flagellation ca. 1740 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
August Riedel Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1840 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Pierre-Joseph Verhaghen Lot and his Daughters 1770 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
Jacopo Tintoretto St Jerome ca. 1570-75 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Andrea del Verrocchio St Jerome ca. 1460 oil and tempera on paper, mounted on panel (study for painting) Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
Claude-Joseph Vernet Jonah and the Whale 1753 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
No longer could the day nor Destinies
Delay the night, who now did frowning rise
Into her Throne; and at her humorous brests,
Visions and Dreames lay sucking; all mens rests
Fell like the mists of death upon their eyes,
Dayes too long darts so kild their faculties.
The windes yet, like the flowrs to cease began:
For bright Leucote, Venus whitest Swan,
That held sweet Hero deare, spread her fayre wings,
Like to a field of snow, and message brings
From Venus to the Fates, t'entreate them lay
Their charge upon the windes their rage to stay,
That the sterne battaile of the Seas might cease,
And guard Leander to his love in peace.
The Fates consent, (aye me dissembling Fates)
They shewd their favours to conceale their hates,
And draw Leander on, least Seas too hie
Should stay his too obsequious destinie:
Who like a fleering slavish Parasite,
Like to a field of snow, and message brings
From Venus to the Fates, t'entreate them lay
Their charge upon the windes their rage to stay,
That the sterne battaile of the Seas might cease,
And guard Leander to his love in peace.
The Fates consent, (aye me dissembling Fates)
They shewd their favours to conceale their hates,
And draw Leander on, least Seas too hie
Should stay his too obsequious destinie:
Who like a fleering slavish Parasite,
In warping profit or a traiterous sleight,
Hoopes round his rotten bodie with devotes,
And pricks his descant face full of false notes,
Praysing with open throte (and other as fowle
As his false heart) the beautie of an Owle,
Kissing his skipping hand with charmed skips,
That cannot leave, but leapes upon his lips
Like a cock-sparrow, or a shameles queane
Sharpe at a red-lipt youth, and nought doth meane
Of all his antick shewes, but doth repayre
– Christopher Marlowe, from Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Hoopes round his rotten bodie with devotes,
And pricks his descant face full of false notes,
Praysing with open throte (and other as fowle
As his false heart) the beautie of an Owle,
Kissing his skipping hand with charmed skips,
That cannot leave, but leapes upon his lips
Like a cock-sparrow, or a shameles queane
Sharpe at a red-lipt youth, and nought doth meane
Of all his antick shewes, but doth repayre
More tender fawnes, and takes a scattred hayre
From his tame subjects shoulder; whips, and cals
For every thing he lacks; creepes gainst the wals
With backward humblesse, to give needles way:
From his tame subjects shoulder; whips, and cals
For every thing he lacks; creepes gainst the wals
With backward humblesse, to give needles way:
Thus his false fate did with Leander play.