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| Cornelis van Haarlem Figure Studies ca. 1627-30 oil on paper Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anonymous French Artist Académie ca. 1800-1850 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| William Etty after Peter Paul Rubens A Naiad ca. 1823-24 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| William Etty Warrior ca. 1835-45 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Frederic Leighton Youth holding a Vase ca. 1855 oil on canvas Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro |
from Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
Other flowering isles must be
In the sea of Life and Agony:
Other spirits float and flee
O'er that gulf: even now, perhaps,
On some rock the wild wave wraps,
With folded wings they waiting sit
For my bark, to pilot it
To some calm and blooming cove,
Where for me, and those I love,
May a windless bower be built,
Far from passion, pain and guilt,
In a dell mid lawny hills,
Which the wild sea-murmur fills,
And soft sunshine, and the sound
Of old forests echoing round,
And the light and smell divine
Of all flowers that breathe and shine:
We may live so happy there,
That the Spirits of the Air,
Envying us, may even entice
To our healing paradise
The polluting multitude;
But their rage would be subdued
By that clime divine and calm,
And the winds whose wings rain balm
On the uplifted soul, and leaves
Under which the bright sea heaves;
While each breathless interval
In their whisperings musical
The inspired soul supplies
With its own deep melodies,
And the love which heals all strife
Circling, like the breath of life,
All things in that sweet abode
With its own mild brotherhood:
They, not it, would change; and soon
Every sprite beneath the moon
Would repent its envy vain,
And the earth grow young again.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
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| Edward Burne-Jones Ananias ca. 1870 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Edward Burne-Jones Azarias ca. 1870 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Harold Knight Académie ca. 1896 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Robert Ernest McEune Study of Classical Figure from a Cast ca. 1898 oil on paper Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1910 oil on canvas Hospitalfield House, Abroath, Scotland |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1910 oil on canvas Hospitalfield House, Abroath, Scotland |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1910 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Anonymous British Artist Académie ca. 1920 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Leila Faithfull Académie 1925 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Joan Hargreaves Male Nude 2 ca. 1948 oil on canvas Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections |