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| Bust of an Athlete Roman Empire early 1st century AD marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Bust of an Athlete Roman Empire 2nd century AD marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from Canto LXXX
La beauté, "Beauty is difficult, Yeats" said Aubrey Beardsley
when Yeats asked why he drew horrors
or at least not Burne-Jones
and Beardsley knew he was dying and had to
make his hit quickly
hence no more B-J in his product.
So very difficult, Yeats, beauty so difficult.
– Ezra Pound
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| Bust of a Young Man Roman Empire AD 140-150 marble British Museum |
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| Bust of a Man wearing Toga Roman Empire AD 240-250 marble British Museum |
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| Jacopo della Quercia Bust of a Young Woman ca. 1400-1440 painted stucco Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| after Andrea del Verrocchio Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici ca. 1478-1521 painted terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Desiderio da Settignano Bust of St John the Baptist ca. 1490 painted terracotta National Gallery Art, Washington DC |
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| Vincenzo Onofri Bust of a Man in Armor ca. 1500 painted terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alessandro Vittoria Bust of a Lady of the Zorzi Family of Venice ca. 1570-80 terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| David Le Marchand Bust of Sir Isaac Newton 1718 ivory British Museum |
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| Louis-François Roubiliac Bust of Lord Chesterfield 1740s plaster British Museum |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne Bust of the Comtesse de Feuquières, daughter of the painter Pierre Mignard ca. 1738 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Bust of Eugénie Maria Wynne 1875 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Naum Lvovich Aronson Bust of Beethoven 1905 plaster Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |