Dire - III

Gioacchino Assereto
Prometheus
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai

Abraham Bloemaert after Titian
Prometheus
ca. 1600
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Sebald Beham
Expulsion from Paradise
1543
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Expulsion of Adam and Eve
before 1615
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Abel Faivre
Pour la France versez votre Or
1915
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hans Konrad Escher von der Linth
Aeneas and Anchises
ca. 1781
drawing
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Anton Maria Zanetti after Parmigianino
Aeneas carrying Anchises out of burning Troy
1723
chiaroscuro woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Paolo Farinati
Tamerlane mounting his Horse
ca. 1575
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Brutus sentencing his Sons to Death
1799
drawing
(study for painting)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Roman Empire
Barbarian Prisoners and Trophies
AD 240-260
marble relief panels
(from Triumphal Arch demolished in Rome)
Giardino di Boboli, Florence

Matthias Gerung
Allegory of Justice sleeping in Chains
1543
oil and tempera on panel
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Alexander Rothaug
Odysseus longing for Home
ca, 1924
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Eugène Isabey
The Wreck
1854
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Gaspare Diziani
Jonah and the Whale
before 1767
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Frederic Leighton
Luca Signorelli painting his Beautiful Dead Son
1851
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Jan Georg van Vliet
Beggar
1632
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Praxiteles the sculptor of old time wrought a delicate image, but lifeless, the dumb counterfeit of beauty, endowing the stone with form; but this Praxiteles of today, creator of living beings by his magic, hath moulded in my heart Love, the rogue of rogues.  Perchance, indeed, his name only is the same, but his works are better, since he hath transformed no stone, but the spirit of the mind.  Graciously may he mould my character, that when he has formed it he may have within me a temple of Love, even my soul. 

Troezen is a good nurse; thou shalt not err if thou praisest even the last of her boys. But Empedocles excels all in brilliance as much as the lovely rose outshines the other flowers of spring. 

Delicate children, so help me Love, doth Tyre nurture, but Myiscus is the sun that, when his light bursts forth, quenches the stars. 

If I see Thero, I see everything, but if I see everything and see no Thero, I again see nothing.

Look! consume not all Cnidus utterly, Aribazus; the very stone is softened and is vanishing.

Ye Persian mothers, beautiful, yea beautiful are the children ye bear, but Aribazus is to me a thing more beautiful than beauty. 

– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)