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| Giorgione The Holy Family ca. 1500 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Isidore Pils Minerva ca. 1870-75 drawing (study for ceiling painting, Opéra Garnier, Paris) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Portrait of Louis XIV 1665 marble Château de Versailles |
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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Woman ca. 1725-50 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Camillo Rusconi St Matthew ca. 1690 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Poseidon 125-100 BC colossal marble statue (excavated on Milos) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Cigoli (Lodovico Cardi) Calling of St Peter and St Andrew 1607 oil on canvas Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Drapery Study for God the Father ca. 1550-1650 drawing Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Portrait of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano 17th century marble National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Vittore Carpaccio Allegorical Figure of Prudence ca. 1525 oil on panel High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Leonardo da Vinci Drapery Study ca. 1475-82 drawing, with added tempera and gouache on linen Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Giovanni della Robbia Allegorical Figure of Plenty ca. 1520-30 glazed terracotta statuette Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger Portrait of Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans, demoiselle de Chartres ca. 1690 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Sébastien Le Clerc Drapery Studies ca. 1673 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Roman Empire Vitellius 1st century AD (porphyry head) 17th century Italy (marble body) Château de Versailles |
Venus [to Jupiter]:
I, this is it, you can sit toying there,
And playing with that female wanton boy,
Whiles my Æneas wanders on the Seas,
And rests a pray to every billowes pride.
Juno, false Juno in her Chariots pompe,
Drawne through the heavens by Steedes of Boreas brood,
Made Hebe to direct her ayrie wheeles
Into the windie countrie of the clowdes,
Where finding Æolus intrencht with stormes,
And guarded with a thousand grislie ghosts,
She humbly did beseech him for our bane,
And charg'd him drowne my sonne with all his traine.
Then gan the windes breake ope their brazen doores,
And all Æolia to be up in armes:
Poore Troy must now be sackt upon the Sea,
And Neptunes waves be envious men of warre,
Epeus horse, to Ætnas hill transformd,
Prepared stand to wracke their woodden walles,
And Æolus like Agamemnon sounds
The surges, his fierce souldiers, to the spoyle:
See how the night Ulysses-like comes forth,
And intercepts the day as Dolon erst:
Ay me! the Starres supprisde like Rhesus Steedes,
Are drawne by darkness forth Astræus tents.
What shall I doe to save thee my sweet boy?
When as the waves doe threat our Chrystall world,
And Proteus raising hils of flouds on high,
Entends ere long to sport him in the skie.
False Jupiter, rewardst thou vertue so?
What? is not pietie exempt from woe?
Then dye Æneas in thine innocence,
Since that religion hath no recompence.
– Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queene of Carthage, act I, scene i (1594)