Violently In Love

Occasional Lord Byron Apologist, Full Time Romantic Poet Enthusiast

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Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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Red-figure kylix with youth and his lover (interior) and youths and men in athletic activities (exterior), attributed to the Carpenter Painter

Greek (manufactured at Athens) Archaic Period, c. 510-500 B.C.

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Getty Museum

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Lord Byron Tribute in central Athens that depicts the personification of Greece hitting Byron as he makes a pass at her crowning the poet with laurels.

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In the Roman Palace by Eduardo Ettore Forti, before 1897, detail

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St. Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene and her Maid by Hendrick Terbrugghen, detail, 1665

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio

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Clara Novello by Edward Petre Novello, 1833

National Portrait Gallery, London

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The Amulet by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans

Private Collection, 1882

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'Leda and the Swan' by Franz Russ the Elder

1844-1906, Austrian

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Pandora (1896), by John William Waterhouse

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Kingston Lacy (Dorset), August 2025

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Alhambra Niche by Weston Westmoreland

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Portrait of Urania, (Detail), (19th century), by the British School, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in), Private Collection

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The Birth of Venus, (detail), (c. 1485) by Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1445 – 1510), tempera on canvas, 172.5 cm (67.9 in) x 278.5 cm (109.6 in), Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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Circe, (Detail), (1885) by John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934, oil on canvas, 133 cm × 219 cm (52 in × 86 in), Private Collection

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Mirror Gallery (Galleria degli Specchi) inside the Royal Palace of Genoa, (Museo di Palazzo Reale)