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| Vincenzo Foppa St John the Baptist ca. 1488-89 tempera on panel Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesca, Milan |
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| Francesco di Giorgio Martini St John the Baptist ca. 1475-85 bronze plaquette National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) St John the Baptist before 1540 oil on panel Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Giovanni di Paolo St John the Baptist ca. 1435-40 tempera and gold on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Justus Glesker St John the Baptist ca. 1640-50 lindenwood Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St John the Baptist 16th century oil on canvas (formerly owned by the painter Ingres) Musée Ingres-Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St John the Baptist as a Child 17th century oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Jusepe Leonardo St John the Baptist ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Jusepe de Ribera St John the Baptist ca. 1624 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Paolo Veneziano Head of St John the Baptist ca. 1350 tempera and gold on panel (altarpiece fragment) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Fra Bartolomeo Studies for St John the Baptist ca. 1511-12 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Geertgen tot Sint Jans St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1484 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| workshop of Sandro Botticelli Christ Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1490 tempera on panel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Giuseppe Caletti (il Cremonese) Executioner with Head of St John the Baptist ca. 1620-30 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Ubaldo Gandolfi St John the Baptist in the Wilderness before 1781 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Benozzo Gozzoli Feast of Herod and Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1461-62 tempera on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pieter de Grebber Herodias mutilating the head of St John the Baptist, held by Salome ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Wellcome Collection, London |
from Iphigenia at Aulis
[Chorus of the women of Chalkis]
I crept through the woods
Between the altars:
Artemis haunts the place.
Shame, scarlet, fresh-opened – a flower,
Strikes across my face.
And sudden – light upon shields,
Low huts – the armed Greeks,
Circles of horses.
I have longed for this,
I have seen Ajax.
I have known Protesilaos
And that other Ajax – Salamis' light –
They counted ivory-discs.
They moved them – they laughed.
They were seated together
On the sand-ridges.
I have seen Palamed,
Child of Poseidon's child:
Divine Merion, a war-god,
Startling to men:
Island Odysseus from the sea-rocks:
And Nireos, most beautiful
Of beautiful Greeks.
*
A flash –
Achilles passed across the beach.
(He is the sea-woman's child
Chiron instructed.)
Achilles had strapped the wind
About his ankles,
He brushed rocks
The waves had flung.
He ran in armour.
He led the four-yoked chariot
He had challenged to the foot-race.
Emelos steered
And touched each horse with pointed goad.
I saw the horses:
Each beautiful head was clamped with gold.
Silver streaked the centre horses.
They were fastened to the poles.
The outriders swayed to the road-stead.
Colour spread up from ankle and steel-hoof.
Bronze flashed.
And Achilles, set with brass,
Bent forward,
Level with the chariot-rail.
– Euripides (485-406 BC), translated by H.D. (1919)