Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of a Lady ca. 1550-55 oil on panel Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
Frederic Leighton Drapery Study (Torso with Crossed Arms) before 1896 drawing Milwaukee Art Museum |
Augustin Pajou Portrait of artist Marie-Adélaïde Hall 1775 terracotta Frick Collection, New York |
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Virgin and Child ca. 1495-96 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
Anonymous French Artist Drapery Study of Magistrate's Robes ca. 1670-1730 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Aristide Maillol Draped Torso 1900 bronze Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
Leandro Bassano Portrait of Dogaressa Morosina Morosini-Grimani ca. 1595-96 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
Fra Bartolomeo Drapery Study of Standing Model ca. 1508-1509 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Raimondo Trentanove Portrait of Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte (mother of Napoleon) 1818 marble Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading ca. 1505 oil on panel, transferred to canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Drapery Study of Seated Youth ca. 1595 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Anonymous French Artist Bust Portrait of a Woman ca. 1620 marble Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Lady Anne Fenoulhet 1760 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Carl Friedrich Lessing Drapery Study ca. 1830-40 drawing Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
Roman Empire Nymph 1st-2nd century AD marble fragment of figure group Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Dido [with Cupid, disguised as Ascanius]:
No, for thy sake Ile love thy father well.
O dull conceipted Dido, that till now
Didst never thinke Æneas beauitfull:
But now for quittance of this oversight,
Ile make me bracelets of his golden haire,
His glistering eyes shall be my looking glasse,
O dull conceipted Dido, that till now
Didst never thinke Æneas beauitfull:
But now for quittance of this oversight,
Ile make me bracelets of his golden haire,
His glistering eyes shall be my looking glasse,
His lips an altar, where Ile offer up
As many kisses as the Sea hath sands,
In stead of musicke I will heare him speake,
In stead of musicke I will heare him speake,
His lookes shall be my only Librarie,
And thou Æneas, Didos treasurie,
In whose faire bosome I will locke more wealth,
Then twentie thousand Indiaes can affoord:
And thou Æneas, Didos treasurie,
In whose faire bosome I will locke more wealth,
Then twentie thousand Indiaes can affoord:
O here he comes, love, love, give Dido leave
To be more modest then her thoughts admit,
Lest I be made a wonder to the world.
Lest I be made a wonder to the world.
– Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queene of Carthage, act III, scene i (1594)