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| Peter Simon after Antoine Claude Fleury Psyché suppliante ca. 1802-1813 stipple engraving British Museum |
Oh! Sovereign of the willing soul,
Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs,
Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares
And frantic Passions hear thy soft control.
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War
Has curbed the fury of his car,
And dropped his thirsty lance at thy command.
Perching on the sceptered hand
of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king
With ruffled plumes and flagging wing:
Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie
The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye.
- from Pindar's Progress of Poesy, translated by Thomas Gray, 1757
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| Cornelis van Dalen Narcissus at the Fountain ca 1648-64 engraving Rijksmuseum |
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| Wilhelm Tischbein Ajax protecting Odysseus 1821 etching British Museum |
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| Pietro Liberi The Three Graces 1670s oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto The Muses 1578 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain acquired by Charles I |
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| Simon Vouet Diana 1637 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giulio Carpioni A Bacchanal ca. 1665 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Sébastien Leclerc Apollo Turning the Crow Black 1676 etching British Museum |
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| Sébastien Leclerc Nyctimene turned into an Owl ca. 1676 etching British Museum |
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| Daniel Vertangen Nymphs and Satyrs in a Landscape ca. 1650-80 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| François Perrier Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl 1646 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Michel Martin Drolling Villa Medici gardens, Rome ca. 1811-16 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Addressing an Emperor 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Perino del Vaga Sea monster with the Head of a Bull ca. 1541-45 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |