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| attributed to Vincenzo Civerchio St Roch and St Sebastian (with The Annunciation above) ca. 1500 tempera and oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Michelangelo di Pietro The Adoration of the Magi ca. 1500-1510 tempera on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Raphael Crucified Christ with the the Virgin, Saints and Angels (The Mond Crucifixion) ca. 1502-1503 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Luca Signorelli Man on a Ladder (altarpiece fragment) ca. 1504-1505 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo The Judgment of Solomon ca. 1505-1510 oil on canvas (unfinished) National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset |
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| Marco Basaiti Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor 1508 oil and tempera on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Titian Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery ca. 1508-1510 oil on canvas (cut down from original dimensions) Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| workshop of Giovanni Bellini Slaying of St Peter Martyr 1509 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
from Muse of Translation
"There is no muse of translation," the translator reminds
as he struggles with Pindar's victory odes, and what he means
is that the imagery is overwhelming: the hissing of snakes
as Medusa's sisters mourn her death, the baby Iamos
"lying on a bed of yellow and purple violets," Heracles
with his baby hands strangling the two serpents sent
"to devour him on the day of his birth" so every translator
must beware of "rank transplantation." Just imagine,
if one were to translate the line as "Forge your tongue
on the anvil of truth." How ridiculous that admonition
to a king. Better to transpose to the vague modern,
though Pindar "perversely, from our point of view – often
seems to relish . . . the concrete image," and it's just
there that I think perhaps all being is translation; the child
I was at the kitchen table, translating my mother into
my father, my father into my mother; each one's
"inviolate honey" becoming the "blameless venom"
of the other.
– Rebecca Seiferle (2007)
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| Raffaellino del Garbo Virgin and Child with the Magdalen and St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1510 tempera on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Francesco Francia Virgin and Child and St Anne enthroned, with St Sebastian, St Paul, young St John the Baptist, St Lawrence, and St Benedict ca. 1511-17 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Antonio Solario (Lo Zingaro) Holy Family with Angel and Donor (central panel of the Withypool Triptych) 1514 oil on panel Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Benvenuto Tisi (Il Garofalo) Holy Family with young St John the Baptist and St Elizabeth ca. 1520 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Andrea del Brescianino Virgin and Child before 1525 oil on panel National Trust, Powis Castle, Wales |
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| attributed to Perino del Vaga Holy Family with young St John the Baptist ca. 1527 oil on panel National Trust, Penrhyn Castle, Wales |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child ca. 1527-28 oil on panel (unfinished) Courtauld Gallery, London |