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| Anonymous Florentine Artist after Agnolo Bronzino Figure Study 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist after Agnolo Bronzino Figure Study 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Sienese Artist after Domenico Beccafumi Anatomical Studies 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Sienese Artist after Domenico Beccafumi Anatomical Studies 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Roman Artist after Raphael Figure Study 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Woman embracing Fantastic Beast 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist River God 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo St Sebastian 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Bolognese Artist after Pelegrino Tibaldi Group of Figures gesturing toward the Sky 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Study of écorché Figure ca. 1550-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Study of écorché Figures 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Study of the Belvedere Torso 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Two Studies of an Antique Torso of Apollo 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Study of the Farnese Hercules 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Study for Thief on the Cross 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
Classics
Students know the name of Oedipus,
Know his disaster, where it grinds
The lanterns, sparkling, of his grecian flesh.
The classroom shines; each mother's son
Made helpless by the dazzle, shades his eyes –
He has an inkling he has seen Jocasta perish.
The mother's daughters of another mind
And mood are harder eyed, receive the shock
Of distant gods and their perverse exactions,
Guard their brothers from the eidolon,
The size implacable of tense priapus.
None evolves a word, turn Christian faces
Twisted for an instant in a strange king's rages
To an embattled calm. The classroom waits
The passage of an hour and twenty pages
When their instructor to a saner climate shifts
And to a better god. Once free of Greeks
Light warms them from a burning bush. They find
Themselves inside a text whose landscape shows
The fulgurations and the brimstone traces
Of luminous, abominable Hebrew places.
– Leonard Wolf (1953)