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| Maarten van Heemskerck Vulcan presenting Thetis with the Shield for Achilles ca. 1540 oil on panel (cut down from full length) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| workshop of Francesco Primaticcio Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes ca. 1560 oil on panel Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Andrea del Sarto The Lamentation ca. 1519-20 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Juan Davila Neo-Pop 1983-85 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Amnon and Tamar ca. 1650-1700 oil on canvas High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Anonymous British Artist Coronation of the Virgin 15th century alabaster relief panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Morgan Russell Piscine 1933 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Joachim Wtewael Marriage of Peleus and Thetis 1602 oil on copper Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci) Penitent St Jerome ca. 1528-29 oil on panel Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Sebald Beham Studies of Antique Statues ca. 1540 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Jan van Hemessen The Calling of Matthew ca. 1539-40 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jan van Hemessen The Calling of Matthew ca. 1548 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Francesco Solimena Aurora taking leave of Tithonus 1704 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| workshop of Peter Paul Rubens Boreas abducting Oreithyia ca. 1615 oil on panel (workshop copy of autograph original) Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Elaine De Kooning Bullfight 1959 oil on canvas Denver Art Museum |
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| Henri Matisse The Romanian Blouse 1937 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum |
from The Wanderings of Oisin
And now, still sad, we came to where
A beautiful young man dreamed within
A beautiful young man dreamed within
A house of wattles, clay, and skin;
One hand upheld his beardless chin,
And one a sceptre flashing out
Wild flames of red and gold and blue,
Like to a merry wandering rout
Of dancers leaping in the air;
And men and ladies knelt them there
And showed their eyes with teardrops dim,
And with low murmurs prayed to him,
And men and ladies knelt them there
And showed their eyes with teardrops dim,
And with low murmurs prayed to him,
And kissed the sceptre with red lips,
And touched it with their finger-tips.
– W.B. Yeats (1889)
[Yeats was born too soon to read Freud, and so was prevented from guessing how posterity would interpret his depiction of the reverent kissing and touching bestowed on this beautiful young man's proud flashing sceptre.]