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| Niccolò Amastini Oedipus and the Sphinx ca. 1800-1820 sardonyx cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Joseph-Antoine Romagnési Minerva protecting the young King of Rome (son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie-Louise) 1811 painted plaster relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Girometti after Bertel Thorvaldsen Priam supplicating Achilles for the Body of Hector ca. 1815-25 onyx cameo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Girometti Nessus abducting Dejanira ca. 1815-25 sardonyx cameo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye Milo of Croton devoured by a Lion 1819 plaster proof of bronze relief Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Giovanni Antonio Santarelli Ariadne abandoned by Theseus before 1826 sardonyx cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
I had not minded – Walls –
Were Universe – one Rock –
And far I heard his silver Call
The other side the Block –
I'd tunnel – till my Groove
Pushed sudden thro' to his –
Then my face take her Recompense –
The looking in his Eyes –
But 'tis a single Hair –
A filament – a law –
A Cobweb – wove in Adamant –
A Battlement – of Straw –
A limit like the Veil
Unto the Lady's face –
But every Mesh – a Citadel –
And Dragons – in the Crease –
– Emily Dickinson (1863)
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| William Wyon Winged Victory crowning the Bust of Lord Nelson on a Monument ca. 1830-40 wax on slate (modello for bronze medal) British Museum |
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| Benedetto Pistrucci Phaedra and Hippolytus before 1855 chalcedony cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Adolphe David The Fall of Phaeton ca. 1850-75 sardonyx cameo Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francis John Williamson Dinah consoling Hetty in Prison (scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot) ca. 1869 marble relief Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Giovanni Maria Benzoni Priam ransoming Hector's Body before 1873 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Maria Benzoni Priam holding the Golden Urn with the Remains of Hector before 1873 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Thomas Eakins Arcadia ca. 1883 plaster modello for bronze relief Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Thomas Eakins Arcadia ca. 1883 bronze relief Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Aimé-Jules Dalou Les Châtiments (Punishment of the Damned) before 1890 plaster modello for etching (illustration for Victor Hugo's poetry) Philadelphia Museum of Art |