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| Bernardino Luini Study of a Figure grasping a Rod ca. 1520 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Gianfrancesco Caroto St Michael Archangel ca. 1530-40 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jost Amman Warrior with Lance ca. 1570 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Warrior swinging a Sword ca. 1579-82 drawing (study for painting, Defense of Brescia) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) Figure brandishing a Club ca. 1630 drawing (counter proof) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Artemisia Gentileschi Tarquin and Lucretia ca. 1640 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Willem Doudijns Hercules slaying the Centaur Nessus ca. 1670 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Raymond Lafage Beheading of John the Baptist ca. 1680 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff Hercules ca. 1710 sandstone statue Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Jean-Simon Berthélemy Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian Knot 1767 oil on canvas Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
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| Alexander Runciman Figure with Sword ca. 1775 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Antonio Canova Figure raising a Cudgel ca. 1790 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Benjamin West St Michael subduing Demons 1797 oil on canvas (design for stained-glass window) Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Giorgio Scherer Alcibiades advancing to Battle ca. 1856 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Anonymous British Photographer Laurence Woodford with Drawn Bow 1928 photographic postcard Wellcome Collection, London |
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| Herwig Zens Apollo and Marsyas 1987 acrylic on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
from The Epilogue
It was a dream delivered the epilogue:
I saw the world end: I saw
Myself and you, tenacious and exposed,
Smallest insects on the largest leaf:
A high trail coasted a ravine
Eyes could not penetrate because a wood
Hung down its slope: a fugue of water
Startled the ear and air with distances
Around and under us, as if a flood
Came pouring in from every quarter:
Myself and you, tenacious and exposed,
Smallest insects on the largest leaf:
A high trail coasted a ravine
Eyes could not penetrate because a wood
Hung down its slope: a fugue of water
Startled the ear and air with distances
Around and under us, as if a flood
Came pouring in from every quarter:
Our trail and height failed suddenly
Fell sheer away into a visibility
More terrible than what the trees might hide:
Fed by a fall, wide, rising
Was it a sea? claimed all the plain
And climbed towards us, smooth
More terrible than what the trees might hide:
Fed by a fall, wide, rising
Was it a sea? claimed all the plain
And climbed towards us, smooth
And ungainsayable. We turned and knew now
That no law steadied the sliding world,
For what we saw was an advancing wave
Cresting along the height. An elate
Despair held us together silent there . . .
That no law steadied the sliding world,
For what we saw was an advancing wave
Cresting along the height. An elate
Despair held us together silent there . . .
– Charles Tomlinson (1981)