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Jean-Antoine Houdon Diana before 1793 plaster Frick Collection, New York |
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Asmus Jakob Carstens The Fate Atropos singing the Future ca. 1795 plaster Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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Johann Gottfried Schadow Portrait of artist Rudolf Schadow 1804 plaster Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Denis Foyatier Portrait of a Woman ca. 1820 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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Bertel Thorvaldsen Young Woman ca. 1840 plaster cast (from figure in Thorvaldsen marble group) Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Daphnis and Chloe 1873 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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Laurent-Honoré Marqueste Cupid 1882 plaster Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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Arthur Guéniot Portrait of Jacqueline de Lespinay 1901 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Aristide Maillol Torso ca. 1912 plaster and terracotta Musée du Petit Palais, Paris |
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Carlo Sarrabezolles Centaur with Urns ca. 1925 plaster Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Hans Arp Serpentine Motion II 1955 plaster Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Yves Klein Winged Victory of Samothrace 1962 painted plaster Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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George Segal Man with Drink in Deck Chair 1967 plaster Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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Pia Hedström Blue Hutsut 1989 painted plaster Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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Anastasia Ax Trunk 2004 plaster and wax Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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Åsa Herrgård Memories of Scents 2019 plaster and jesmonite Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
But only a few moments' sleep were they able to snatch, and scarcely had their weary eyelids closed, when a dream of the following form appeared to Charikleia: a man with matted hair with cunning in his eyes and blood on his hands, with one stroke of his sword struck out her right eye, whereupon she screamed and called to Theagenes, saying that her eye had been plucked out No sooner did she call than he was at her side, in as much anguish at her distress as if he shared even her dreams. Charikleia put her hand to her face and felt all over to find what she had lost in her dream. But it was only a dream.
"It was only a dream," she cried. "My eye is still there. It is all right, Theagenes."
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)