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| Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo) Cain slaying Abel before 1676 oil on canvas Palazzo Corsini, Rome |
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| Johann Liss Abel mourned by Adam and Eve ca. 1630 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Pietro Sigismondi Samson and Delilah 1606 oil on canvas Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca |
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| Francesco Furini Judith and Holofernes ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Camillo Berlinghieri St Sebastian tended by Holy Women ca. 1632-35 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Dirck van Baburen St Sebastian succoured by St Irene ca. 1620 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Francesco Maffei Perseus beheading Medusa ca. 1650 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Head of Medusa ca. 1600-1650 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Bernardino Mei Orestes slaying Clytemnestra and Aegisthus 1654 oil on canvas Collezioni della Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena |
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| Johann Liss Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese) Flight of Aeneas from Troy ca. 1635 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Michele Desubleo (Michele Fiammingo) Death of Cleopatra before 1676 oil on canvas Palazzo Corsini, Rome |
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| Francesco Rustici (il Rustichino) Olindo and Sofronia (scene from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata) ca. 1620 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Donato Mascagni (Fra Arsenio) Ugolino and his Sons in the Famine Prison ca. 1611 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Padovanino (Alessandro Varotari) Orpheus losing Eurydice ca. 1620 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
| Laurent de La Hyre Dead Adonis ca. 1628-30 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Naples Venus discovering the dead Adonis ca. 1650 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Speaks Bito's tomb to whomsoever reads:
"If from Torone to Amphipolis you go,
Give Nicagoras this message: his one son
Died in storm, in early winter, before sunrise."
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by W.G. Shepherd
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