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| Gösta von Hennigs Clown ca. 1912 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Hans Simon Holtzbecher Fritillaria imperialis ca. 1665-70 gouache on vellum Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hollerbaum & Schmidt Der Tag ca. 1905 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Charles Dana Gibson Scribner's for June 1895 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Bernd and Hilla Becher Cooling Tower - Neunkirchen, Saargebiet 1970 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous German Artist Shrine ca. 1750 carved and painted wood, colored wax and fabric Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anonymous Artist Design for Urn ca. 1860 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Ex Libris - Hommel ca. 1750-1800 etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Jean-François Baudart Académie 1797 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Paul Cézanne Study of the Venus de Milo ca. 1881-84 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Eugène Delacroix Drapery Study for the Virgin ca. 1820 drawing (study for altarpiece painting) Musée de Grenoble |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Hercules ca. 1500-1520 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Carl Jacob Malmberg Untitled ca. 1875 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Kasimir Malevich Woman with a Rake ca, 1928 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above Sea of Fog ca. 1817 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Vilhelm Hammershøi Bedroom 1890 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
Do not judge the man by the stone. Simple is the tomb to look on, but holds the bones of a great man. Thou shalt know Alcman the supreme striker of the Laconian lyre, possessed by the nine Muses. Here resteth he, a cause of dispute to two continents, if he be a Lydian or a Spartan. Minstrels have many mothers.
Alcman the graceful, the swan-singer of wedding hymns, who made music worthy of the Muses, lieth in this tomb, a great ornament to Sparta, or perhaps at the last he threw off his burden and went to Hades.
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O Sophocles, son of Sophillus, singer of choral odes, Attic star of the tragic Muse, whose locks the curving ivy of Acharnae often crowned in the orchestra and on the stage, a tomb and a little portion of earth hold thee; but thy exquisite life shines yet in thy immortal pages.
O Sophocles, son of Sophillus, singer of choral odes, Attic star of the tragic Muse, whose locks the curving ivy of Acharnae often crowned in the orchestra and on the stage, a tomb and a little portion of earth hold thee; but thy exquisite life shines yet in thy immortal pages.
Gently over the tomb of Sophocles, gently creep, O ivy, flinging forth thy green curls, and all about let the petals of the rose bloom, and the vine that loves her fruit shed her pliant tendrils around, for the sake of that wise-hearted beauty of diction that the Muses and Graces in common bestowed on the sweet singer.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)