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| Giambattista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida in her Garden (detail) (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata of Torquato Tasso) ca. 1742-45 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gaetano Lapis Armida and Rinaldo (scene from Gerusalemme Liberata of Torquato Tasso) before 1776 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino |
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| Ignazio Stella Triumph of Venus ca. 1725 oil on canvas Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Filippo Falciatore Concert in a Garden 1750 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Flora and Zephyr before 1734 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Egidio Martini, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Giuseppe Moriani Danaë receiving the Shower of Gold, with Cupid ca. 1725-30 oil on canvas Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Jacopo Amigoni Venus and Adonis with Nereids before 1752 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Egidio Martini, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Pompeo Batoni Peace and War 1776 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Valentine
Too high, too high to pluck
My heart shall swing.
A fruit no bee shall suck,
No wasp shall sting.
If on some night of cold
It falls to ground
In apple-leaves of gold
I'll wrap it round.
And I shall seal it up
With spice and salt,
In a carven silver cup,
In a deep vault.
Before my eyes are blind
And my lips mute,
I must eat core and rind
Of that same fruit.
Before my heart is dust
At the end of all,
Eat it I must, I must
Were it bitter gall.
But I shall keep it sweet
By some strange art;
Wild honey I shall eat
When I eat my heart.
O honey cool and chaste
As clover's breath!
Sweet Heaven I shall taste
Before my death.
– Eleanor Wylie (1921)
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Alexander the Great presenting his mistress Campaspe to the painter Apelles 1793 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pietro Longhi Flirtation between Maskers 1760 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Gaspare Diziani Abduction of Dejanira by the Centaur Nessus before 1767 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio Corradini Woman abducted by a Centaur (one of a pair) ca. 1720 marble Grand Garden, Dresden |
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| Antonio Corradini Woman abducted by a Centaur (one of a pair) ca. 1720 marble Grand Garden, Dresden |
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| Niccolò Bambini Abduction of the Sabine Women before 1736 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Judith about to behead the sated and sleeping Holofernes before 1754 oil on canvas Accademia di San Luca, Rome |