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| Joan Eardley Sleeping Nude 1955 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Duncan Grant Model Study 1949 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giorgio Sommer Casts of Bodies from Pompeii ca. 1875 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Denis Foyatier La Siesta 1848 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Blessed Ludovica Albertoni after 1674 terracotta (reduced copy after Gianlorenzo Bernini) Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Le Soir before 1823 oil on canvas (painted for l'Hôtel de Lannoy, Paris) Musée du Louvre |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Knight Errant 1914-15 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Elisabeth Frink Horizontal Birdman III 1964 bronze Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Théodore Géricault Étude de main et d'avant-bras 1818-19 oil on canvas (study for painting The Raft of the Medusa) Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte) Recumbent Figure 1588 drawing British Museum |
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| Germain Pilon Roman Soldier as Tomb Guardian 1572 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Sylvia Sleigh Allan Robinson 1968 oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Gustave Le Gray Nu féminin allongé sur un canapé Récamier ca. 1856 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anselm Kiefer Man under a Pyramid 1996 mixed media on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Josef Maria Eder Newborn Rabbit 1896 photogravure (book illustration from X-ray image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Antonio Canova Lion ca. 1783-92 plaster (modello for tomb of Pope Clement XIII Rezzonico) Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Etruscan Culture Addorsed Lions' Heads with Boar in relief 500-480 BC amber Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
A man (they say)
whom a mad dog
has bitten, sees,
stooping to drink,
that dog's image
upon the water.
Did Love, rabid,
fasten his teeth
within my flesh?
Your eyes glance
and smile in
the sea, the stream's
slow eddies,
the wine-cup.
– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Andrew Miller