Jun 30
Sappho Inspired by Love
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)
Date: 1775
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, United States
Description
Sappho is shown holding a parchment inscribed "ἔλθε μοι καὶ νῦν, χαλέπαν δὲ λῦσον ἐκ μερίμναν" ('So come again and save me from unbearable pain', the beginning of the last verse of her Ode to Aphrodite in ancient Greek from Joseph Addison's 1735 edition of the work.
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