Abbott Thayer
William John Waterhouse
Evelyn de Morgan
Peter Paul Rubens
Sandro Botticelli
William Bouguereau
Carravaggio
Vangogh
Herbert Draper
John Strudwick



Book I Part XVIII: Be Pale: Be Wary of Your Friends

A pale colour would shame a sailor on the ocean wave, who’s blackened by the rays of the sun: and shame the farmer who turns the soil with curved plough and heavy harrow, underneath the heavens. And you who seek the athlete’s crown, you too would be ashamed if all your body was white. Let all lovers be pale: it’s the colour fitting for love: it suits, though fools have thought it of no alue. Orion wandered pale, for Side, in the woods, Daphnis was pale for his reluctant Naiad.

Ovid:"The Art of Love"