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The origins of the eroticized half-length portrait are intertwined with amorous descriptions of beloved women found in both classical and contemporary love poetry being published in Venice at this time . Starting with the Symposium , a basic text on erotic and other loves which reflects and helps to define ways in which we in the West have thought about love , we move to two very distinct ancient novels , Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe and Chariton 's Chaireas and Kallirrhoe ( written in the 1 st-3rd centuries AD . Mountain Kate ; or , Love on the Trapping Grounds , is a young woman of initiative who displays a greater degree of individuality than does Annie James . " " She is so lovely , one cannot but be loving towards her . And they rend the soul with pestilent desires because she longs to be and yet loves to rest secure in the created things she loves .