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| attributed to Théodore Géricault Study Head of Young Man ca. 1810 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Arthur Guéniot The Mower 1896 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi) Praying Virgin ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Amaury-Duval Head of the Virgin 1865 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Hiram Powers The Greek Slave (bust version) after 1846 marble Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Roman Empire Head of Diadumenos AD 120-130 marble Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Child at Table ca. 1775 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Victor Müller Head Study ca. 1869-71 drawing (study for painting, Romeo and Juliet) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| workshop of Jacopo Tintoretto Study of Antique Head ca. 1550-1600 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Andrea del Sarto Head of a Woman 1523-24 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci Woman with Elaborate Hairstyle 1648 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| Cesare da Sesto Head of an Old Man before 1523 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Albrecht Dürer Head of Young Christ 1506 drawing (study for painting, Christ among the Doctors) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Cesare Bacciocchi Head of Young Man before 1678 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Rosalba Carriera Mater Dolorosa before 1757 pastel on paper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Guido Reni Christ crowned with Thorns 1636-37 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles – Look on the work of Apelles' pencil; Cypris, just rising from the sea, her mother; how, grasping her dripping hair with her hand, she wrings the foam from the wet locks. Athena and Hera themselves will now say, "No longer do we enter the contest of beauty with thee."
On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles – Apelles saw Cypris herself brought forth by the sea, her nurse; and so he drew her, still wringing with her fresh hands her locks soaked with the foam of the waters.
On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles – When Cypris, her hair dripping with the salt foam, rose naked from the purple waves, even in this wise holding her tresses with both hands close to her white cheeks, she wrung out the brine of the Aegean, showing only her bosom, that indeed it is lawful to look on; but if she be like this, let the wrath of Ares be confounded.
On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles – The Paphian has but now come forth from the sea's womb, delivered by Apelles' midwife hand. But back quickly from the picture, lest thou be wetted by the foam that drips from her tresses as she wrings them. If Cypris looked thus when she stripped for the apple, Pallas was unrighteous in laying Troy waste.
On the Aphrodite Anadyomene of Apelles – Apelles having seen Cypris, the giver of marriage blessing, just escaped from her mother's bosom and still wet with bubbling foam, figured her in her most delightsome loveliness, not painted, but alive. With beautiful grace doth she wring out her hair with her finger-tips, beautifully doth calm love flash from her eyes, and her paps, the heralds of her prime, are firm as quinces. Athena herself, and the consort of Zeus shall say, "O Zeus, we are worsted in the judgment."
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)