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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Aurora triumphing over Night ca. 1755-56 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Pompeo Batoni Hercules at the Crossroads, choosing between Duty and Pleasure ca. 1754-57 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Heinrich Friedrich Füger Hercules at the Crossroads, choosing between Duty and Pleasure ca. 1790 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne Hercules crowned by Virtue, while suppressing the Vices and Passions 1663 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Doccia Manufactory (Florence) Virtue overpowering Vice 1745-50 porcelain Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Sèvres Manufactory Le Courage Militaire 1922 porcelain National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| William Unger after Peter Paul Rubens Mars crowned with Victory ca. 1880 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Harmensz Muller after Bartholomeus Spranger Bellona leading the Armies of the Emperor against the Turks 1600 engraving Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Allegory of War ca. 1700 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Godfried Schalcken Allegory of the Treaty of Nijmegen between Spain and France ca. 1688-92 oil on canvas Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen |
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| Theodor van Thulden Flanders, Brabant and Hainaut venerating the Virgin and Child (Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia) 1654 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jacques Vaillant Allegory of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg receiving the Homage of Pomerania 1678 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Antoine Coypel Nec Pluribus Impar (Allegorical Device of the Sun King, Louis XIV) ca. 1700 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (il Grechetto) Allegorical Scene with Courtier and River God ca. 1645-50 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Apotheosis of Aeneas ca. 1765 oil on canvas (modello for ceiling fresco) Harvard Art Museums |
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| Peter Paul Rubens The Four Rivers of Paradise paired with the Four Continents ca. 1615 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Vacillation
The Soul. Seek out reality, leave things that seem.
The Heart. What, be a singer born and lack a theme?
The Soul. Isaiah's coal, what more can man desire?
The Heart. Struck dumb in the simplicity of fire!
The Soul. Look on that fire, salvation walks within.
The Heart. What theme had Homer but original sin?
The Heart. What theme had Homer but original sin?
– W.B. Yeats (1932)