Eidola

Karl Albiker
Fleeing (Daphne)
1909
bronze
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Franz Kobell
Apollo pursuing Daphne through a Forest
before 1822
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)
Narcissus turning into a Flower
ca. 1595-1600
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Hans von Marées
Two Studies for Narcissus
1885
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Otto Scholderer
Narcissus
1889
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Johann Caspar Schwab after Johann Spillenberger
Narcissus
ca. 1810
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Salomon Gessner
Abduction of Ganymede
ca. 1802-1803
etching
(posthumous printing)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Johann Georg Mansfeld
Abduction of Ganymede
ca. 1795-1805
gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Hans von Marées
Abduction of Ganymede
before 1887
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Salomon Gessner
Hylas and the Nymphs
ca. 1802-1803
etching
(posthumous printing)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Nicolas Colombel
Atalanta and Hippomenes
ca. 1680
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

René-Antoine Houasse
Diana and Endymion
ca. 1680
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne

Marcantonio Franceschini
Metamorphosis of the dead Adonis
ca. 1692-98
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

workshop of Luca Giordano
Venus and Adonis
ca. 1675
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Benjamin West
Adonis departing for the Hunt
1800
oil on canvas
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

Joachim Wtewael
Venus and Adonis
ca. 1607-1610
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Eidolon  

Down in fame's flood, down an alley, down
wind of now, elegant in self-denial,
an Iron Range wraith junking cue cards, an ideal,
an idol before which the Zeitgeist kneeled. 

Dylan, named for a poet named from an old
tale of the child who crawled to the sea, this land
is yours: the black plain the needle
ploughs from lip to label; be all, end all.

– Roddy Lumsden (2010)