Field of the Cloth of Gold (The Meeting of Francis I and Henry...

Field of the Cloth of Gold (The Meeting of Francis I and Henry VIII), 1545

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"All the fields of merit are within one’s own heart. If one seeks from the true mind within, one can..."

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All the fields of merit are within one’s own heart. If one seeks from the true mind within, one can be in touch with all that one wishes for.

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- Master Huineng

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Artist - Bartolomeo Veneto (1470-1531) Viewed as an idealized...

Artist - Bartolomeo Veneto (1470-1531)

Viewed as an idealized portrait of a courtesan Flora, formerly erroneously as a portrait Lucrezia Borgia

First third of the 16th century, probably ~ 1520s

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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”



- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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Claude Lorrain The Embarking of Ulysses 1646

Claude Lorrain

The Embarking of Ulysses

1646

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Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the...

Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World

Heemskerck painted this homage to ancient art in Rome, where he traveled to study antiquities as well as the work of contemporary masters such as Michelangelo (1475-1564). 16th- or 17th-century Europeans could call on this celebration of ancient ingenuity to validate their own. In 1535, when Heemskerck painted this panorama to complement Cardinal Ridolfo Pio’s famous collection of antiquities, scholars were still disputing which of these monuments were the most marvelous. Heemskerck’s interpretation of the narrative, the abduction of Helen, queen of the Greek city-state Sparta, by Paris, a prince of Troy in Asian Minor, an epic that stretches across the ancient world to Rome itself, was influenced by versions of the story that set events among the marvels of heroic achievements of the ancient world. This luminous panorama is one of the most famous Northern landscapes of the 1500s; its array of ancient marvels and evidence of antiquity’s greatness provided a picture-puzzle for the viewer, challenging him to locate and identify the pieces. In Greek and Roman literature a rainbow was evidence that the messenger goddess Iris, identified by her multicolored mantle, was on her way to deliver a message. In this story, she alerted Helen’s husband Menelaus who was away from home when the abduction took place.

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"To get back one’s youth, one has to merely repeat one’s follies."

“To get back one’s youth, one has to merely repeat one’s follies.”



- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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