Berthe Morisot The Cherry Tree 1891 oil on canvas Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
Joseph Christian Leyendecker Sculling Crew 1932 oil on canvas (cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Hans Baldung Three Witches 1514 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Félix Bracquemond The Genius of Fire 1875 gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
Maurice Desvallières Amphora Carrier 1898 lithograph High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino Birth of the Virgin 1749 chiaroscuro woodcut Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Auguste Rodin Woman carrying a Boy ca. 1878-81 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
Giambologna Abduction of the Sabine Women 1582 terracotta modello Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence |
François Girardon Abduction of Proserpine ca. 1677-87 marble statue group Château de Versailles |
Clodion Bacchantes 1799 terracotta statuette Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
Anonymous Artist working in Padua Hercules and Antaeus ca. 1525-50 bronze statuette Bode Museum, Berlin |
Gustave Moreau Dejanira carried off by the Centaur Nessus (Allegory of Autumn) ca. 1872-73 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Giulio Benso after Michelangelo Abduction of Ganymede ca. 1650 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
Giulio Romano Jupiter and Ganymede 1527 drawing (design for stucco ceiling relief) Morgan Library, New York |
Guido Reni Crucifixion of St Peter 1604-1605 oil on panel Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
Jost Amman Hercules and the Nemean Lion before 1591 drawing Kunsthaus Zürich |
Faustus [alone, in his study]:
Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please?
Resolve me of all ambiguities?
Performe what desperate enterprise I will?
I'le have them flie to India for gold;
Ransacke the Ocean for Orient Pearle,
And search all corners of the new-found-world
Resolve me of all ambiguities?
Performe what desperate enterprise I will?
I'le have them flie to India for gold;
Ransacke the Ocean for Orient Pearle,
And search all corners of the new-found-world
For pleasant fruits, and Princely delicates.
I'le have them read me strange Philosophy,
And tell the secrets of all forraine Kings:
I'l have them wall all Germany with Brasse,
And make swift Rhine, circle faire Wittenberge:
I'le have them read me strange Philosophy,
And tell the secrets of all forraine Kings:
I'l have them wall all Germany with Brasse,
And make swift Rhine, circle faire Wittenberge:
I'le have them fill the publique Schooles with silke,
Wherewith the Students shall be bravely clad.
I'le leavy souldiers with the coyne they bring,
I'le leavy souldiers with the coyne they bring,
And chase the Prince of Parma from our Land,
And raigne sole King of all our Provinces.
Yea stranger engines for the brunt of warre,
Then was the fiery keele at Antwerpe bridge,
Then was the fiery keele at Antwerpe bridge,
I'le make my servile spirits to invent.
– Christopher Marlow, Doctor Faustus, Act I, scene i (1592)