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Sappho is in Romans People.
1857. Simeon Solomon (age 16). "Sappho and Erinna in a garden at Mytilene ".
Around 1860. Soma Orlai Petrich (age 37). "Sappho".
1875. Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (age 51). "Lesbie and the sparrow". The subject of our painting is both a praise of the favorite animal and a lamentation over its death, a common theme in antiquity. It can also bear an erotic significance, with the death of the sparrow, an animal whose melodious voice endowed it with a reputation for sensuality, symbolizing the end of a passionate love. Lesbia was the mistress of the poet Catullus (87-54 BC) to whom he dedicated many poems (half of the 118 that have survived). The wife of a consul, she was famous for her libertine ways and inspired the artists of her time. Catullus is said to have given her the nickname Lesbia in reference to the Greek poet Sappho, who lived on the island of Lesbos. Sappho ran a school for women there, where eroticism and poetry were taught.
1877. Charles Mengin (age 23). "Sappho".
1881. Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 44). "Sappho and Alcaeus". It depicts a concert in the late 7th century BC, with the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene playing the kithara. In the audience is fellow Lesbos poet Sappho, accompanied by several of her female friends. Sappho is paying close attention to the performance, resting her arm on a cushion which bears a laurel wreath, presumably intended for the performer. The painting is based on Athenaeus' "The Deipnosophists" Book 13 Chapter 7:
With the fond love of Lesbian Alcæus,
Who sang the praises of the amorous Sappho,
And grieved his Teian rival, breathing songs
Such as the nightingale would gladly imitate;
1881. Miquel Carbonell Selva (age 26). "The Death of Sappho". The painting depicts a myth about Sappho’s death, that she fell off of a cliff and drowned to death after having her heart broken by a young sailor named Phaon.
1884. Jules Joseph Lefebvre (age 47). "Sappho".
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1895. Francis Coates Jones (age 37). "Sappho".
1904. John William Godward (age 42). "Sappho of Lesbos".
Before 1911. Jules Joseph Lefebvre (age 74). "Sappho".
Before 1927. Enrique Simonet Lombardo (age 60). "Sappho".