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| Anonymous gem-cutter working in Milan Cleopatra sardonyx cameo early 17th century British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Mythological figure of Jason as garden statue late 16th century marble Victoria & Albert Museum |
The flaming breath of firie Bulles ye quenched for my sake
And caused their unwieldie neckes the bended yoke to take.
Among the Earthbred brothers you a mortall war did set,
And brought a sleepe the Dragon fell whose eyes were never shet.
By means whereof deceiving him that had the golden fleece
In charge to keepe, you sent it thence by Jason into Greece.
Now have I neede of herbes that can by vertue of their juice
To flowring prime of lustie youth old withred age reduce.
– Ovid, from Medea's Invocation in the Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding, 1567
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| Eugène Atget Marble Faun as Garden Ornament, Versailles ca. 1921-22 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Battista Franco Statue of Hercules ca. 1530-61 etching British Museum |
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| Auguste Desnoyers after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Ancient Statue of Eros as Archer 1807 engraving British Museum |
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| Lucas Kilian after Michelangelo Statue of Hercules and Cacus ca. 1600-1615 engraving British Museum |
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| circle of Bernardo Buontalenti Sketches of Roman soldiers 16th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Hans Collaert Design for a pendant based on Roman painted grotesques 1582 engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Giovanni Martino Hamerani Model for a relief-medallion portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden ca. 1680 wax, slate British Museum |
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| Josiah Wedgwood Relief plaque with Nymph from Herculaneum ca. 1775-85 black basalt porcelain Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Josiah Wedgwood Roman Vase with Relief of Nymphs from Herculaneum ca.1775-85 black basalt porcelain Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Tommaso Costa Cleopatra greeting Antony 1773 watercolor British Museum |
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| Jean Duplessi-Bertaux Orestes Killing Clytemnestra from an ancient relief in Palazzo Pitti, Florence ca. 1792 etching British Museum |
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| workshop of Leonardo da Vinci Statue of the Wolf of Rome on the Capitoline Hill ca. 1513-16 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |