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| Käthe Kollwitz Self Portrait 1921 etching and drypoint Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Hermann Kruse Study of Seated Italian 1896 watercolor on paper Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jean-Étienne Liotard Dame Pensive sur un Sofa 1749 pastel on vellum Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Nicolaes Maes Apostle Thomas (the Architect) 1656 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Irving Penn Christian Dior, New York 1947 gelatin silver print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Henri Martin Girl on a Terrace ca. 1900 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Leo Holub Agnes Martin, Galisteo, New Mexico 1992 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jan Fridlund Paris ca. 1957-59 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Robert Caumont Reflection in a Mirror 1918 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| François Clouet Charles IX, King of France, at age 14 ca. 1564 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Anonymous Dutch Artist Académie 1785 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Francesco Bartolozzi Académie ca. 1750 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Heinrich Lips Memory (The Nordic Sibyl) 1806 gouache on paper Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of model and artist Maria Zambaco 1870 pastel on paper Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1635 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Odilon Redon Head Study before 1916 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
How capital the charm for one in love that Polyphemus discovered! Yes, by the Earth, he was not unschooled, the Cyclops. The Muses make love thin, Philippus; of a truth learning is a medicine that cures every ill. This, I think, is the only good that hunger, too, has to set against its evils, that it extirpates the disease of love for boys. I have plenty of cause for saying to Love, "Thy wings are being clipped, my little man. I fear not a tiny bit." For at home I have both the charms for the severe wound.
Stranger, if thou sawest somewhere among the boys one whose bloom was most lovely, undoubtedly thou sawest Apollodotus. And if, having seen him, thou wast not overcome by burning fiery desire, of a surety thou art either a god or a stone.
Sweet is the boy, and even the name of Myiscus is sweet to me and full of charm. What excuse have I for not loving? For he is beautiful, by Cypris, entirely beautiful; and if he gives me pain, why, it is the way of Love to mix bitterness with honey.
Even like unto a storm in springtime, Diodorus, is my love, determined by the moods of an uncertain sea. At one time thou displayest heavy rain-clouds, at another again the sky is clear and thy eyes melt in a soft smile. And I, like a shipwrecked man in the surge, count the blind waves as I am whirled hither and thither at the mercy of the mighty storm. But show me a landmark either of love or of hate, that I may know in which sea I swim.
The goddess, queen of the Desires, gave me to thee, Theocles; Love, the soft-sandalled, laid me low for thee to tread on, all unarmed, a stranger in a strange land, having tamed me by his bit that grippeth fast. But now I long to win a friendship in which I need not stoop. But thou refusest him who loves thee, and neither time softens thee nor the tokens we have of our mutual continence. Have mercy on me, Lord, have mercy! for Destiny ordained thee a god; with thee rest for me the issues of life and death.
I know my hands are empty of wealth, but, by the Graces I beseech thee, Menippus, tell me not my own dream.* It hurts me to hear continually these bitter words. Yes, my dear, this is the most unloving thing in all thy bearing to me.
– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*i.e. tell me not what I already know too well