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| Luca Giordano after Bartholomeus Spranger Omphale with Lion Skin and Club and Hercules with Spindle ca. 1660 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1730-35 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Guido Reni Death of Cleopatra ca. 1626 oil on canvas Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Giovanni Giacomo Sementi Death of Cleopatra ca. 1625-26 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Claude Vignon Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra ca. 1640 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1586-90 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fede Galizia Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1600 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Cristofano Allori Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1610-12 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Max Liebermann Samson and Delilah 1902 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Simon Vouet Lucretia ca. 1625 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Artemisia Gentileschi Lucretia ca. 1627 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Guido Reni Lucretia ca. 1638-42 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Jakob Philipp Hackert Dido and Aeneas sheltering in the Cave 1804 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Palma il Giovane Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1599 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Joseph Heintz the Elder Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1600-1605 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1635 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from A Bronze Head
Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave,
And wondered what was left for massacre to save.
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave,
And wondered what was left for massacre to save.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)