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Detail in stabian Baths, Pompeii
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Clio, Muse of History
Artist: Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
Date: 1800
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Description
Clio, the Greek muse of history, is the daughter of Zeus and Titaness Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Clio is depicted here writing and surrounded by objects associated with preserving the memory of historical figures and events: busts, reliefs, and sculptures. This painting belongs to a cycle of works commissioned by businessman François Boyer-Fonfréde for his home in Toulouse.
Crown Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Consort to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (1858-89)
Artist: Hans Canon
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Private Collection
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sibylla Palmifera
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Description
Dante Gabriel Rossetti made this painting as an icon of spiritual beauty. Its counterpart, representing sensual beauty, is 'Lady Lilith', in the Delamere Art Museum's collection.
The title was originally just 'Palmifera', meaning palm-bearing. Rossetti told his patron that the figure holds a palm "to mark the leading place which I intend her to hold among my beauties."
He also later suggested that the painting embodied "Beauty the palm-giver, i.e. the principle of beauty…", suggesting that the palm was being offered to the viewer to let them share in the experience of beauty.
Rossetti added Sibylla to the title to evoke associations with ancient female wisdom. The name implies the sibyls from classical mythology, women gifted with secret knowledge of the future.
However Rossetti's sibyl has no link with these ancients and is his own invention. Her inscrutable expression indicates the mysterious or unfathomable fascination of the beautiful.
Remarkable Tessellated Forms Emerge in Intricate Origami by Goran Konjevod
The Love-Sick Hercules being Hen-Pecked by Omphale
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Date: 1602
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France