Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Lesbia and her Sparrow


Anonymous Fresco from Herculanaeum
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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them. Heaven’s great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But soon as once is set our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 60 BC)
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Angelo Caroselli (1st half 17th C.)
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Antonio Zucchi (ca. 1778)
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Joshua Reynolds (ca. 1876)
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Guillaume Brun (1860)
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Jacques Chevalier (1861)
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Lawrence Alma-TademaLesbia Weeping over a Sparrow (1866)
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Francois Truphème (1875)
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Edward Poynter (ca. 1880)
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Félicien Rops (late 19th C.)
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Hector Leroux (late 19th C.)
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James Sant (1881)
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Tony Robert Fleury (1885)
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Stefan Bakalovich (late 19th C.)
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George William Joy (1896)
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Charles Sims (1909)
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'Great Love of a Roman Poet'
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