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Cover art for Amazing Science Fiction by Jeff Jones (October, 1973)
Vestal Virgin Condemned to Death attributed to Pietro Saja (1800)
The Three Graces, Decorative Panel of Dancers by Francesco Hayez (1817) #Italian #Romanticism
Cymon & Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton (1884)
Leighton spent 6 months searching Europe for a model to match his imagined ideal of Iphigenia. He chose Dorothy Dene, who had a classical Greek beauty and would go on to appear in several other of Leighton's works.
“If the enemy waits then he should be pressured, put into obedience and deceived; teaching the enemy, the threatener of life, that he is not worthy of the pleasure of living.”
Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri, La Bandiera (1638)
Gladiator and Vanquished Slave by Viktor Oskar Tilgner (1897)