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| Paul Fordyce Maitland The Lady's Mile, Kensington Gardens ca. 1900 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Félix Vallotton Poker Game 1902 oil on cardboard Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Henri Rousseau Pink Candle 1908 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Rupert Bunny On the beach (Royan) ca. 1908 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
HYMN TO APHRODITE
Star-throned Incorruptible Aphrodite,
Child of Zeus, wile-weaving, I supplicate thee,
Tame not me with pangs of the heart, dread mistress,
Nay, nor with anguish.
But come thou, if erst in the days departed
Thou didst lend thine ear to my lamentation,
And from afar the house of thy sire deserting,
Camest with golden
Car yoked: thee thy beautiful sparrows hurried
Swift with multitudinous pinions fluttering
Round black earth, adown from the height of heaven
Through middle ether:
Quickly journeyed they; and, O thou, blest Lady,
Smiling with those brows of undying lustre,
Asked me what new grief at my heart lay, wherefore
Now I had called thee,
What I fain would have to assuage the torment
Of my frenzied soul; and whom now, to please thee,
Must persuasion lure to my love, and who now,
Sappho, hath wronged thee?
Yea, for though she flies, she shall quickly chase thee;
Yea, though gifts she spurns, she shall bestow them;
Yea, though now she loves not, she soon shall love thee,
Yea, though she will not!
Come, come now too! Come, and from heavy heart-ache
Free my soul, and all that my longing yearns to
Have done, do thou; be thou for me thyself too
Help in the battle.
– originally by Sappho, translated from ancient Greek by John Addington Symonds (1873)
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| Egon Schiele Male Nude propping himself up 1910 drawing with pigment Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Nudes in Studio 1912 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| August Macke Little Walter's Toys 1912 oil on canvas Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Harold Gilman Interior with washstand ca. 1914 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Childe Hassam Mt. Beacon at Newburgh 1916 oil on panel Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
ACHILLES TO THE DYING LYKAON
Float with the fish, they'll clean your wounds, and lick
away your blood, and have no care of you;
nor will your mother walk beside your pyre
as you swirl down the Skamander to the sea,
but the dark shadows of the fish will shiver,
lunge and snap Lykaon's silver fat.
Trojans, you will perish till I reach Troy –
you'll run in front, I'll scythe you down behind;
nor will your Skamander, though whirling and silver, save you,
though you kill sheep and bulls, and drown a thousand
one-hoofed horse, still living. You must die
and die and die and die and die –
till the blood of my Patroklos is avenged,
killed by the wooden ships while I was gone.
– from the Iliad of Homer, book 21, translated by Robert Lowell (1973)
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| Colin Gill Observation of Fire 1919 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| John Lavery Lady Henry's Crêche, Woolwich 1919 oil on canvas Imperial War Museum, London |
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| Joaquin Sorolla Children looking for shellfish 1919 oil on canvas Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Landscape with house on a hill ca. 1925-26 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Maurits van der Valk Still-life with Asian art objects before 1935 oil on canvas Teylers Museum, Haarlem |