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| Master of the Die (active in Rome) Bacchus served by Putti ca. 1530-60 engraving British Museum |
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| Léon Davent after fresco at Fontainebleau by Francesco Primaticcio Hercules and Omphale in bed dressed in one another's clothes awakening to discover Pan approaching the Queen (from Ovid's Fasti) ca. 1540-45 engraving British Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro (active in Rome) Horses fighting, a Rider, and a Swan - after a sarcophagus now in the Uffizi representing the Fall of Phaethon ca. 1550 drawing British Museum |
SONNET
Life hurries on, a frantic refugee,
And Death, with great forced marches, follows fast;
And all the present leagues with all the past
And all the future to make war on me.
Anticipation joins to memory
To search my soul with daggers; and at last,
Did not damnation set me so aghast,
I'd put an end to thinking, and be free.
The few glad moments that my heart has known
Return to me; then I foresee in dread
The winds upgathering against my ways,
Storm in the harbor, and the pilot prone,
The mast and rigging down; and dark and dead
The lovely lights whereon I used to gaze.
– Petrarch (1304-1374), translated by Morris Bishop (1893-1973)
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| Virgil Solis (active in Germany) Triumphal Procession of Music before 1562 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous copy after Francesco Primaticcio Apollo and Pan making music, from ceiling painting at Fontainebleau before 1570 drawing British Museum |
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| Giulio Bonasone (active in Bologna) Seated Pan, standing Nymph with cornucopia, and Cupid with cymbals before 1576 etching, engraving British Museum |
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| Agostino Carracci (active in Bologna and Rome) Omnia vincit amor - Cupid overcoming Pan, with Nymphs watching 1599 engraving British Museum |
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| Bartholomäus Reiter (active in Germany) Venus seated in Pan's lap, Cupid in foreground 1610 etching British Museum |
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| Anonymous English printmaker Title-page to Juvenilia by George Wither with figures of Pan and the author 1626 engraving British Museum |
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| Herman van Swanevelt (active in Rome) Pan pursuing Syrinx on a riverbank ca. 1635-40 drawing British Museum |
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| William Marshall (active in England) Title-page to Michael Drayton's poems with figures of Minerva, Apollo, Pan, and shepherd playing bagpipes 1637 engraving British Museum |
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| Antoine Jacquard (active in France) Ornamental print - Pan and Syrinx before 1640 engraving British Museum |
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| Charles Mellin (active in Rome) Apollo with the body of Hyacinthus ca. 1640 drawing, formerly attributed to Nicolas Poussin British Museum |
SONNET
O unforgiving thoughts, I pray you: Peace!
Must I contend with Love and Death and Fate
Hot at the walls and pressing at the gate
Whilst inward rebels give me no surcease?
Ah, heart of mine, what treacherous caprice
Has made of you a cruel confederate,
With every eager foeman of my state?
'Tis through your faithlessness my woes increase.
All secret messages of Love you know;
Fortune displays its every pomp to you;
Death shares with you the memory of that blow
Which must these sad remains of me undo;
You give false arms to each fond thought, and so
Yours is the blame for every grief I rue.
– Petrarch (1304-1374), translated by T.G. Bergin (1904-1987)
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| Cassiano dal Pozzo Paper Museum (Rome) Bacchic scene - based on Roman sarcophagus in the Villa Borghese, Rome - now in the Louvre ca. 1650 drawing British Museum |
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| Raymond Lafage (active in France) Worship of Priapus before 1684 drawing British Museum |