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| Carlo Saraceni Andromeda chained to the Rock ca. 1598-1600 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Perseus and Andromeda 1592 oil on slate Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Rutilio Manetti Perseus and Andromeda ca. 1611-12 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Francisco Collantes Hagar and Ishmael ca. 1640 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Francesco Maffei Hagar and the Angel ca. 1650 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Ottavio Vannini Rebecca and Eleazar ca. 1626-27 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Domenico Gargiulo Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well ca. 1660 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Giovanni Battista Ranieri del Pace Rebecca at the Well ca. 1715-20 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Sacrifice of Polyxena ca. 1650 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jacopo del Sellaio Orpheus, Eurydice and Aristaeus ca. 1475-80 oil on panel (from a cassone) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| attributed to Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) Orpheus losing Eurydice ca. 1490-1510 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| François Gérard Orpheus and Eurydice 1791 drawing, with watercolor Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Joos van Winghe Apelles painting Campaspe ca. 1600 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Willem van Haecht Apelles painting Campaspe (in imaginary gallery with actual art) 1630 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Jérôme-Martin Langlois Alexander the Great presenting his mistress Campaspe to the painter Apelles 1819 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Pieter Lastman Nausicaä discovering the shipwrecked Odysseus 1619 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
The Apparition
Because there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sense,
Distrustful of that popular eye
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sense,
Distrustful of that popular eye
Whether it be bold or sly.
Fifteen apparitions have I seen;
The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.
I have found nothing half so good
As my long-planned half solitude,
Where I can sit up half the night
With some friend that has the wit
Not to allow his looks to tell
When I am unintelligible.
As my long-planned half solitude,
Where I can sit up half the night
With some friend that has the wit
Not to allow his looks to tell
When I am unintelligible.
Fifteen apparitions have I seen;
The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.
When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.
Fifteen apparitions have I seen;
The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.
– W.B. Yeats (1939)