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| Matthias Gerung Monument to Melancholy in the Garden of Love 1558 tempera and oil on panel Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Paul Gervais The Folly of Titania 1897 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Salomon Gessner Buying a Cupid ca. 1802-1803 etching (posthumously printed) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Cupid and Youth lighting Torches ca. 1770 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Wilhelm Böttner Young Woman hiding her Love 1788 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Marco Dente after Giulio Romano Venus and Adonis ca. 1516 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Giulio Romano Venus and Adonis 1516 drawing (study for fresco) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Domenico del Frate Neoclassical Statue Group - Venus and Adonis before 1821 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Maria Benzoni Cupid and Psyche after 1845 marble Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| Johann Helferich Cramer Sculpture of Cupid and Psyche as Children ca. 1750 oil on canvas (grisaille, made in Rome) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Theodor Friedl Cupid and Psyche ca. 1890 marble Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Gaspare Diziani Cupid and Psyche before 1767 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Josef Abel Cupid aiming Arrow ca. 1810 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jean Duvet Allegory on the Power of Love 1528 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Jan Gossaert Portrait of a Man with a Love Motto ca. 1530 oil on panel Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Hans Schäufelein The Triple Heart 1517 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
On a Statue of Heracles – Heracles, where is thy great club, where thy Nemean cloak and thy quiver full of arrows, where is thy stern glower? Why did Lysippus mould thee thus with dejected visage and alloy the bronze with pain? Thou art in distress, stripped of thy arms. Who was it that laid thee low? Winged Love, of a truth one of thy heavy labours.
On a Statue of Theseus and the Bull of Marathon – Marvelous is the art of the bull and man; he, the man, his limbs all tense, forces down by his might the savage beast. To bend back the sinews of its neck he grasps with his left hand its nostrils, with his right its horn and shakes up the neck-bones. The beast, its neck subdued by his strong hands, sinks down on its hindquarters. One may fancy that in this bronze Art makes the beast breathe and bathes the man in sweat.
On a Statue of Capaneus – Had Capaneus been like this when he furiously attacked the towers of Thebes, contriving to mount through the air on a ladder, he would have taken the city by force in Fate's despite; for even the bolt of Zeus would have deemed it shame to slay such a champion.
On a Picture of Telephus Wounded – This, the irresistible chieftain of Teuthrania; this Telephus who once bathed in blood the terrible host of the Greeks when he filled Mysian Caycus to overflowing with slaughter; this, the champion who faced the spear of Peleus, now bearing hidden deep in his thigh a heavy and deadly wound, wastes away as if his life were leaving him, dragging himself along with his living flesh. Even though he be sore hurt the Greeks tremble at him, and depart in disorder from the Teuthranian shore.
On Hippolytus conversing with Phaedra's Nurse – Hippolytus speaks into the old wife's ear pitiless words, but we cannot hear them. But as far as we can understand from the fury in his eyes, he enjoins her not to say again unlawful words.
On a Bronze Statue of Icarus which stood in a Bath – Icarus, wax caused thy death, and now by wax the worker in bronze has restored thee to thy shape. But beat not thy wings in the air, lest thou fall from the sky and give thy name to the bath.*
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)
*as he gave his name to the Icarian Sea
