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| Anne-Louis Girodet Sleeping Endymion 1791 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Corneille van Clève Selene and Endymion ca. 1704 bronze statuette Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco |
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| Michele Tosini Lucretia ca. 1550 oil on panel Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Mignard Death of Lucretia before 1695 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Alessandro Turchi Lucretia and Tarquin before 1649 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giulio Carpioni Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Nicolò dell'Abate Bacchus ca. 1550 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Corneille van Clève Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1704 bronze statuette Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco |
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| Giulio Romano Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1527 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Palma il Giovane Bacchus and Ariadne before 1628 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco del Pedro after Jacopo Tintoretto Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1790 etching and engraving Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Sebastiano Ricci Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1700-1710 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Rosso Fiorentino Death of Cleopatra ca. 1525-30 oil on panel Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Antonio Molinari Cleopatra dissolving the Pearl before 1704 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Mazzuoli Death of Cleopatra ca. 1713 terracotta Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Mazzuoli Death of Cleopatra ca. 1713 terracotta Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Narcissus and the Star
I will not look within
Where at the hot pit hisses
That diet of worms and a daimon
Adoring his mirror twin
More than any Narcissus
The issue of his semen.
But as the first and last
Dead suns rise and set
Over and hereafter
The sweet star and the past,
Glory without regret
All things ever after.
– George Barker (1956)