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| Jan Collaert Statue of Mars ca. 1587 engraving British Museum |
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| Barthel Beham Daphne pursued by Apollo ca. 1520-40 engraving British Museum |
'Help me, Father!' she pleaded. 'If rivers have power over nature,
mar the beauty which made me admired too well, by changing
my form!' She had hardly ended her prayer when a heavy numbness
came over her body; her soft white bosom was ringed in a layer
of bark, her hair was turned into foliage, her arms into branches.
The feet that had run so nimbly were sunk into sluggish roots;
her head was confined in a treetop; and all that remained was her beauty.
– from Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn
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| Anonymous printmaker Equestrian statue of King Charles II ca. 1680-1714 engraving British Museum |
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| Grinling Gibbons Studies for a statue of Charles II ca. 1660-87 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous printmaker Bust of Anne of Denmark as Minerva 17th century engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous printmaker Statue of Apollo by Adriaen de Vries ca. 1598 engraving British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Michelangelo's statues of Dawn and Dusk 1761 drawing British Museum |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Michelangelo's statues of Day and Night 1761 drawing British Museum |
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| Cornelis van Dalen Michelangelo's statue of Moses 1638 engraving British Museum |
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| Battista Naldini Head of Michelangelo's statue of Giuliano de' Medici 16th century drawing British Museum |
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| Domenico Compagnola Venus in a landscape 1517 engraving British Museum |
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| Giulio Compagnola Venus in a landscape ca. 1510-15 engraving British Museum |
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| Nikolaus Wilborn Architectural ornaments 1533 engraving British Museum |
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| Thomas Rowlandson Caricature of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens ca. 1800 hand-colored etching British Museum |