Image accessed through http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lure-east-british-orientalist-painting/explore-exhibition/lure-ea-3]]> This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.]]> An Athlete Wrestling with a Python]]> An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, c. 1877, plaster, 251 x 156 x 130 mm. Tate (N01761); Presented by Prof. Alphonse Legros, 1897. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leighton-sketch-for-an-athlete-wrestling-with-a-python-n01761

]]> Athlete Wrestling with a Python, Leighton House. Leighton presented these casts to his friends and fellow artists; the example at Leighton House was presented ca. 1900 by G. F. Watts.]]> The Rescue, National Gallery of Victoria]]> Rucellai Madonna was carried from the house of the 13th century painter Cimabue to the church of S. Maria Novella in Florence.]]> Celebrated Madonna, The National Gallery, London.]]> Frame: 600 x 520 x 20 mm]]> Tate Britain.]]> The Study. 
]]> Yale Center for British Art.]]> Ophelia]]>
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element; but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.]]> National Portrait Gallery, London, 658.]]> Artists at Home, photographed by J.P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London" Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p.]]> The North American Indian]]> Norwalk]]> Fair St. George]]> January 20, 2017, by LM]]> A Visit to Aesculapius]]> Hekatompathia, Sonnet XX:

In time long past, when in Diana's chase
A bramble bush prick'd Venus in the foot,
Old AEsculapius help'd her heavy case
Before the hurt had taken any root:
Wherehence although his beard were crisping hard
She yielded him a kiss for his reward.]]> The Ides of March]]> Julius Caesar, when the wife of Caesar, Calphurnia, implores her husband not to go to the senate house, where he will be assassinated.]]>