Dickinson College Commentaries

Aurora and Cephalus (1733) by François Boucher

Nude young woman seated on a rock with a young man, also nude, surrounded by tools of hunting and a chariot and cupids in the air

Infanta Maria of Portugal by Francisco de Holanda; c. 1540s.

portrait painting of a noble lady with fancy dress and high collar

Poetry, a woman with a laurel crown

drawing of young woman in a fancy dress with laurel crown

The Garden of the Hesperides, Edward Burne-Jones, detail

three young women dance around a tree encirceed by a snake

Striding Pan

The satyr stands upright and majestically strides forward. His powerfully muscled torso closely resembles Riccio’s heroic nudes

Sylvanus from The Rural Gods

Engraving showing a man with goat legs carrying a branch

Two satyrs and a faun seated to right watching two child satyrs

Drawing of two satyrs and a faun seated to right watching two child satyrs

Valley of Sintra at dusk with crags

Valley of Sintra at dusk with crags

The Sintra Mountains at Dusk

Sunrise over high mountains

Sintra Google Earth Map

Contour map showing Sintra, Lisbon, Atlantic Ocean, landmarks and roads