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| Francesco Bassano the Younger Omphale with Lion Skin and Club and Hercules with Spindle ca. 1587 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Ferrarese Artist Theseus abandoning Ariadne ca. 1540 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Benjamin West Agrippina with her Children mourning over the Ashes of Germanicus 1773 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Bartholomeus Spranger Odysseus and Circe ca. 1586-87 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Joseph Heintz the Elder Leda and the Swan ca. 1605 oil on copper Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo Cleopatra ca. 1550-1600 oil on panel Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1524-30 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1530 oil on panel Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Vincenzo Guarana King Masinissa bringing Poison to Sophonisba 1777 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Geldorp Gortzius Esther and Ahasuerus 1612 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Laurent de La Hyre Samson and Delilah before 1656 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Artemisia with the Ashes of King Mausolus ca. 1615-16 oil on panel Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) Lucretia ca. 1515-16 oil on panel Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Jael with Hammer and Spike ca. 1586-90 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Arie de Vois Dido and Aeneas Hunting ca. 1660-70 oil on panel Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Andrea Solario Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1520-24 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from News for the Delphic Oracle
Straddling each a dolphin's back
And steadied by a fin
Those Innocents re-live their death,
Their wounds open again.
The ecstatic waters laugh because
Their cries are sweet and strange,
Through their ancestral patterns dance,
And the brute dolphins plunge
Until in some cliff-sheltered bay
Where wades the choir of love
Proffering its sacred laurel crowns,
They pitch their burdens off.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)
The ecstatic waters laugh because
Their cries are sweet and strange,
Through their ancestral patterns dance,
And the brute dolphins plunge
Until in some cliff-sheltered bay
Where wades the choir of love
Proffering its sacred laurel crowns,
They pitch their burdens off.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)