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Study of a Nude: Edgar Degas, 1890-95, pastel and charcoal, 62 x 48 cm (private collection)
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The Nebra sky disk, dated c. 1600 BC. The cluster of dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades: photo by Dbachmann, 30 December 2006; image by Rainer Zenz, 10 March 2010
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Nevermore (O Taiti): Paul Gauguin, 1897, oil on canvas, 60 x 116 cm (Courtauld Gallery, London)
Tonight I’ve watched
The moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is now
half-gone; youth
goes; I am
in bed alone
Sappho: Fragment 168B, translated by Mary Barnard (1909-2001) in Sappho (1968)
The Nebra sky disk, dated c. 1600 BC. The cluster of dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades: photo by Dbachmann, 30 December 2006; image by Rainer Zenz, 10 March 2010
Reclining Nude (recto): Jacopo Pontormo, 1519-21, black chalk, 270 x 423 mm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Nevermore (O Taiti): Paul Gauguin, 1897, oil on canvas, 60 x 116 cm (Courtauld Gallery, London)