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| Luca Giordano The Song of the Prophetess Maria ca. 1687 Prado |
A yellow-coated pomegranate, figs like lizards' necks,
a handful of half-rosy part-ripe grapes,
a quince all delicate-downed and fragrant-fleeced,
a walnut winking out from its green shell,
a cucumber with the bloom on it pouting from its leaf-bed,
and a ripe gold-coated olive – dedicated
to Priapus friend of travellers, by Lamon the gardener,
begging strength for his limbs and his trees.
– inscription by the Hellenistic poet Philip, resident in Rome, from a collection published in Greek around AD 40, translated by Edwin Morgan and quoted in The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation edited by Adrian Poole & Jeremy Maule, 1995
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| Anthony van Duck The Lamentation ca. 1635 Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Laurent de La Hyre Allegory of Grammar 1650 National Gallery, London |
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| Guercino The Cumaean Sibyl with Putto 1651 National Gallery, London |
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| Guercino Angel appearing to Hagar and Ishmael 1652-53 National Gallery, London |
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| Francisco de Zurbarán Allegory of-Charity ca. 1655 Prado |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Personification of Fame 1635-36 National Gallery, London |
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| Eustahce Le Sueur Three Muses - Melpomene, Erato, Polyhymnia ca. 1652-55 Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Three Muses - Clio. Euterpe, Thalia ca. 1652-55 Louvre |
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| French painter Personification of Summer 17th century Prado |
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| French painter Personification of Spring 17th century Prado |
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| Philippe de Champaigne Dream of St Joseph 1642-43 National Gallery, London |
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| Bernardo Cavallino Triumph of Galatea ca. 1650 National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
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| workshop of Bernardo Cavallino St Catherine of Alexandria 17th century Metropolitan Museum of Art |