Frederic Leighton, Light of the harem
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Lord Frederic Leighton Cymon and Iphigenia, 1884
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Henryk Siemiradzki, The Conversation (The New Bracelet), 1883.
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LAIRESSE, Gérard de
Apollo and Aurora (with detail)
1671
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
King Lear, William Shakespeare
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Avarice makes whores of us all.
Steven Erikson, Fall of Light
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We need help, the Poet reckoned.
Ed Dorn
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“In Time of Peril” by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1897
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Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus. Along with Gaius Caesar, the two were appointed counsels in 1 AD.
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MARTIN, John (1789–1854)
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still (Josh 10:12), detail
circa 1840
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Yale Center for British Art
Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.
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Love and His Counterfeits - Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
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Portrait of a lady, said to be Mary Queen of Scots by Circle of Robert Peake the Elder (1542–87)
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I
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France, Army, Josephine.
Last words of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Abel-Dominique Boyé - The metamorphosis of Orpheus
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The Arrested Spear John Byam Liston Shaw
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