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| Christian Friedrich Zincke Miniature Portrait of Catherine Shorter wife of Sir Robert Walpole 1735 enamel on copper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Ancient Egyptian Culture Ointment Container in Fish Shape ca. 1400-1350 BC core-formed glass British Museum |
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| Cecil Beaton The Honourable Stephen Tennant ca. 1927-28 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anton Domenico Gabbiani Abduction of Ganymede 1700 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Laura Coombs Hills Miniature Portrait of Belle da Costa Greene ca. 1910 watercolor on ivory Morgan Library, New York |
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| Ancient Egyptian Culture Bead 1st century AD fusion of mosaic glass tessarae Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Cecil Beaton The Honourable Stephen Tennant ca. 1927-28 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Battista Franco Battle of Montemurlo and Abduction of Ganymede ca. 1537 oil on panel Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Aimée Thibault Portrait Miniature set into pearwood Letterbox ca. 1810 oil on paper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Ancient Egyptian Culture Inlay of Eye 1540-1070 BC cast glass Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Cecil Beaton The Honourable Stephen Tennant ca. 1927-28 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anton Raphael Mengs Jupiter and Ganymede 1758-59 detached fresco transferred to canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Heinrich Schödl Miniature Portrait of a Woman ca. 1835 watercolor on ivory in silver frame Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin |
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| Ancient Egyptian Culture Isis 380-250 BC painted wood statuette (from tomb) Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Cecil Beaton The Honourable Stephen Tennant ca. 1927-28 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Nicolaes van Helt-Stockade Jupiter and Ganymede ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor after Adamo Tadolini Ganymede and the Eagle ca. 1810 marble statuette Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
A Thracian page-boy
mastered
you, Anacreon,
Master of all-night
ceremonies,
Enchanter of the Nine,
who wept
often in your cups
for Smerdies,
for Bathyllus.
Let wine spout
in fountains
where you lie,
ambrosia
nectar,
from the gods.
Let your garden-grave
bear
the evening violet,
the stock, sweet-breathing,
myrtles
for garlands
dew-fresh,
that, in the House of Dis,
happy with wine,
to a fine measure
dancing
you may clasp forever
your golden love,
Eurypyle,
in your arms.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Peter Whigham