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| Ancient Roman Culture Venus 1st century BC marble Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Venus and Cupid 16th century marble Gallerie Estense, Modena |
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| Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Venus ca. 1750-75 marble Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Mercury 2nd century AD bronze (excavated in Paris) Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Filippo and Ignazio Collino Mercury ca. 1793 marble Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Apollo AD 150-200 marble Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Paul Heermann Apollo ca. 1726 marble Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Aphrodite 1st century BC marble Harvard Art Museums |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Aphrodite 1st century AD marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Aphrodite 1st-2nd century AD marble Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Aphrodite 1st century AD marble British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Neptune 17th century bronze (reduced copy of Bernini's marble original) Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Augustin Pajou Neptune 1767 marble Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Dionysus 2nd century AD marble (arms and head are modern additions) Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Hermes AD 100-150 marble Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Luigi Valadier Herm of Bacchus 1773 bronze, alabaster and marble Galleria Borghese, Rome |
Beautiful Lofty Things
Beautiful lofty things; O'Leary's noble head;
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
'This Land of Saints,' and then as the applause died out,
'Of plaster Saints;' his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
'Of plaster Saints;' his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
Standish O'Grady supporting himself between the tables
Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words;
Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table
Her eightieth winter approaching; 'Yesterday he threatened my life,
I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table
The blinds drawn up;' Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words;
Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table
Her eightieth winter approaching; 'Yesterday he threatened my life,
I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table
The blinds drawn up;' Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
– W.B. Yeats (1938)