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| Luca Ferrari (Luca da Reggio) Death of St Peter Martyr ca. 1642-48 oil on canvas Gallerie Estense, Modena |
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| Orazio Riminaldi Martyrdom of St Cecilia ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Francesco Furini St Christina of Bolsena ca. 1635-45 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Andrea Vaccaro Martyrdom of St Agatha ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Luca Giordano St Sebastian ca. 1675 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) St Sebastian ca. 1490-1510 bronze plaquette Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Francesco Rustici (il Rustichino) St Sebastian tended by Pious Women 1624-25 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1630 oil on copper Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1630 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Bernardino Luini Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1525 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese) Herodias and Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1640 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Leonello Spada Head of John the Baptist brought to Salome ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Salome receiving the Head of John the Baptist before 1626 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert Martyrdom of St James the Greater ca. 1637 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Pier Antonio Bernabei Apparition of St Felicity at the Martyrdom of a Mother and her Seven Sons ca. 1605 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Philippe de Champaigne Exhumation of the Uncorrupted Corpses of St Gervasius and St Protasius ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
Tom O'Roughley
'Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy.'
Or so did Tom O'Roughley say
That saw the surges running by,
'And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey.
'If little planned is little sinned
But little need the grave distress.
What's dying but a second wind?
How but in zig-zag wantonness
Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?'
Or something of that sort he said.
'And if my dearest friend were dead
I'd dance a measure on his grave.'
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy.'
Or so did Tom O'Roughley say
That saw the surges running by,
'And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey.
'If little planned is little sinned
But little need the grave distress.
What's dying but a second wind?
How but in zig-zag wantonness
Could trumpeter Michael be so brave?'
Or something of that sort he said.
'And if my dearest friend were dead
I'd dance a measure on his grave.'
– W.B. Yeats (1919)