Vittore Carpaccio  

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The Dragon of Vittore Carpaccio’s “St. George and the Dragon” (1502)

Norman Lindsay illustrated the Satyricon, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Casanova, Villon

Ladies of Olympus (1945)

Dimitri Leue Benjamin Boutreur NINA NINA of de stad zonder kinderen is based on the De rattenvanger van Hamelen.

It is striking that through all his ironic discourse, Ovid in Ars Amatoria never becomes ribald or obscene. Of course 'embarrassing' matters can never be entirely excluded, for 'alma Dione praecipite nostrum est, quod pudet, inquit, opus' '..."what you blush to tell", says Venus, "is the most important part of the whole matter"'. Sexual matters in the narrower sense are only dealt with at the end of each book, so here again, form and content converge in a subtly ingenious way. Things, so to speak, always end up in bed. But here, too, Ovid retains his style and his discretion, avoiding any pornographic tinge. The end of the second book deals with the pleasures of simultaneous orgasm. Somewhat atypically for a Roman, the poet confesses, 'Odi concubitus, qui non utrumque resolvunt. Hoc est, cur pueri tangar amore minus' ('I abhor intercourse which does not relieve both. This is also why I find less pleasure in the love of boys').

"She hath breasts as two golden globes, like golden pomegranates, beautifully upright, arched and rounded, firm as stone to the touch, with nipples erect and outwards jutting. She hath thighs as unto pillars of alabaster, and between them there vaunts a secret place, a sachet of musk, that swells, that throbs, that is moist and avid." -- The Arabian Nights via TEA, page 84