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| Anonymous French Artist Pericles preventing Anaxagoras from drinking poison ca. 1790 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Frederic Leighton Dramatic Scene in a Courtyard ca. 1870 oil on canvas (sketch) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni Assassination and Funeral of Julius Caesar ca. 1455-60 tempera on panel, transferred to canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giuseppe Maria Crespi Democritus and Heraclitus ca. 1730 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Pietro Novelli (il Monrealese) Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1631-32 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Jean-Joseph Taillasson Berenice reproaching Ptolemy 1802 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Giuseppe Zini Pericles encountering Aspasia in the Studio of Phidias ca. 1899 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Modena |
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| Guido Reni Plebeian Putti battling Noble Putti ca. 1630 oil on canvas Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome |
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| Francesco Incarnatini Attack of a Robber 1642 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Albert Besnard L'Avertissement 1900 etching and drypoint Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Robert Longo Study for Wrestlers 1979 drawing Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York |
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| Richard Bosman Adversaries 1982 woodcut Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York |
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| Max Ernst The Witch 1941 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) St George and the Dragon ca. 1535-40 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Francesco Scaramuzza Alessandro Farnese at the Battle of Lepanto 1826 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Gioacchino Assereto The Mocking of Job ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
From the 'Antigone'
Overcome – O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl –
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl –
The rich man and his affairs,
The fat flocks and the fields' fatness,
Mariners, rough harvesters;
Overcome Gods upon Parnassus;
Mariners, rough harvesters;
Overcome Gods upon Parnassus;
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
Heaven and Earth out of their places,
That in the same calamity
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
City and city may contend,
By that great glory driven wild.
By that great glory driven wild.
Pray I will and sing I must,
And yet I weep – Oedipus' child
Descends into the loveless dust.
Descends into the loveless dust.
– W.B. Yeats (1933)