Leonardo da Vinci Heads of Warriors ca. 1504-1505 drawing (study for lost fresco, The Battle of Anghiari) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Two Warriors in Antique Garb 1529-30 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Roman Empire Commander in Armour AD 150 (torso) with 16th-century arms, legs and head marble Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
Giorgio Vasari Death of St Peter Martyr before 1574 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Théodore Géricault Trumpeter of the Hussars ca. 1815-20 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
attributed to Giorgione Portrait of a Warrior ca. 1505-1510 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Jacques Stella Death of Marc Antony ca. 1650-55 oil on copper Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Jacques Henri Sablet Death of Pallas at the hands of Turnus (episode from The Aeneid) 1778 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle The Great Warrior of Montauban 1898 bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Portrait of a Knight of Malta ca. 1585 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Livio Agresti (il Ricciutello) Classical Warrior ca. 1560 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Eustache Le Sueur Figure representing Martial Valor ca. 1652-55 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
workshop of Lucas van Valckenborch Archduke Matthias of Austria in Classical Armour ca. 1580 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Anonymous French Artist after Valentin de Boulogne Musicians and Soldiers 1626 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
Anna Maria Braun Portrait of a General ca. 1660-70 colored wax relief Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
Roman Empire Helmet 2nd century AD bronze Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins |
from The Shadowy Waters
I walked among the seven woods of Coole,
Shan-walla, where a willow-bordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,
Shan-walla, where a willow-bordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,
Where many hundred squirrels are as happy
As though they had been hidden by green boughs
Where old age cannot find them; Pairc-na-lee,
As though they had been hidden by green boughs
Where old age cannot find them; Pairc-na-lee,
Where hazel and ash and privet blind the paths;
Dim Pairc-na-carraig, where the wild bees fling
Their sudden fragrances on the green air;
Dim Pairc-na-tarav, where enchanted eyes
Their sudden fragrances on the green air;
Dim Pairc-na-tarav, where enchanted eyes
Have seen immortal, mild, proud shadows walk;
Dim Inchy wood, that hides badger and fox
And marten-cat, and borders that old wood
Wise Biddy Early called the wicked wood:
Seven odours, seven murmurs, seven woods.
– W.B. Yeats (1906)