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| Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen David encountering Abigail ca. 1495 oil on panel Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Agostino Carracci after Paolo Fiammingo Reciproco Amore ca. 1589-95 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Hendrik Goltzius The Sense of Smell (series, The Five Senses) ca. 1595-96 drawing (print study) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Christoph Gertner Amorous Couple, with Death lurking in the Shadows ca. 1600 oil on slate Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri Lot and his Daughters 1617 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Jacques de Gheyn II Allegory of Unequal Love ca. 1620 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Christoph Gertner Monk with Harlot and Procuress 1624 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Abraham Bloemaert Shepherd wooing Shepherdess in a Landscape 1627 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Dido accosting the departing Aeneas ca. 1646 gouache on paper, mounted on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Pieter de Hooch The Intruder - A Lady at her Toilette surprised by her Lover 1665 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Pietro Paolini (il Lucchese) The Procuress (Old Man and Young Woman) ca. 1670 oil on canvas Musée de l'Oise |
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| Petr Brandl Lot and his Daughters ca. 1700 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Laurent Delvaux Caunus and Biblis ca. 1735 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Benjamin West Helen brought to Paris 1776 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Salomon Gessner Lovesick Boatman with Cupid 1777 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto Young Man with Harlot and Procuress ca. 1780 etching and engraving Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
from Cyclops
Thus sweetly sad of old, the Cyclops strove
To soften his uneasie hours of Love.
Then when hot Youth urg'd him to fierce desire,
And Galatea's eyes kindled the raging fire,
His was no common Flame, nor could he move
In the old Arts, and beaten Paths of Love;
Nor Flowers, nor Fruits sent to oblige the Fair,
Nor more to please, curl'd his neglected Hair.
His was all Rage, all Madness; To his Mind
No other Cares their wonted entrance find.
Oft from the Field his Flock return'd alone
Unheeded, unobserv'd: He on some stone,
Or craggy Cliff, to the deaf Winds and Sea
Accusing Galatea's Cruelty;
Till Night from the first dawn of opening Day,
Consumes with inward heat, and melts away.
Yet then a Cure, the onely Cure he found,
And thus apply'd it to the bleeding Wound;
From a steep Rock, from whence he might survey
The Floud, (the Bed where his lov'd Sea-Nymph lay)
His drooping head with Sorrow bent he hung,
And thus his grief calm'd with his mournfull Song.
– Theocritus (early 3rd century BC), translated by Richard Duke (1684)