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  2. The Rape of Proserpina - Wikipedia

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    The Head of Proserpina was bought from the Palazzo Bernini by Busiri Vici in 1839, and sold again to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1968. [26] Head of Proserpina, Cleveland Museum of Art. The Rape of Proserpina is made of high-quality Carrara marble, which was hard to find in large blocks and highly coveted by 17th-century sculptors. [28]

  3. Proserpina - Wikipedia

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    The Rape of Proserpina by Hans von Aachen (1587) Copy of The Rape of Proserpina by Vincenzo de' Rossi, on view near Cliveden House. The best-known myth surrounding Proserpina is of her abduction by the god of the Underworld, her mother Ceres' frantic search for her, and her eventual but temporary restitution to the world above.

  4. Proserpine (play) - Wikipedia

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    Proserpine was first published in the London periodical The Winter's Wreath in 1832. Whether the drama was ever intended to be staged is a point of debate among scholars. The drama is based on Ovid's tale of the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, which itself was based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Mary Shelley's version focuses ...

  5. File:Roof van Proserpina, RP-P-OB-1235.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Titel(s): Roof van Proserpina Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-OB-1235 Catalogusreferentie: Bartsch 72. Meder 67-Mit den Rostflecken-a Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso rechtsonder, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: In een bergachtige omgeving wordt een naakte vrouw door een man op een eenhoorn meegevoerd. Op de achtergrond ...

  6. Claudian - Wikipedia

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    The Abduction of Proserpina (ca. 1631) by Rembrandt was influenced by Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae [8] Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus; De raptu Proserpinae (unfinished epic, 3 books completed) In Rufinum ("Against Rufinus") De Bello Gildonico ("On the Gildonic revolt") In Eutropium ("Against Eutropius")

  7. Portal:Theatre/Featured article/23 - Wikipedia

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    Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the Romantic writers Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems . Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy , it is often considered a partner to the Shelleys' play Midas .

  8. Genealogy testing IDs suspect in 1975 assault of 3 young ...

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    For nearly 50 years, three women have sought the identity of a man who abducted them when they were young teenagers, bound and stabbed them, and left them for dead in an Indiana cornfield in ...

  9. Pluto (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Albrecht Dürer, Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn (1516) Rembrandt's Abduction of Proserpina (ca. 1631) The abduction of Proserpina by Pluto was the scene from the myth most often depicted by artists, who usually follow Ovid's version. The influential emblem book Iconologia of Cesare Ripa (1593, second edition 1603) presents the allegorical ...