Editing Coma Berenices (section)

== In culture ==
[[File:The hair of Berenice, by Luis Ricardo Faléro.jpg|thumb|160px|alt=Print of two female nudes in the heavens|[[Luis Ricardo Falero]]'s ''The Hair of Berenice'' (1886)]]
Since Callimachus' poem, Coma Berenices has been occasionally featured in culture. [[Alexander Pope]] alludes to the legend in the ending of ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]'', in which the titular hair is placed among the stars. (The poem would go on to provide the names of some of the [[moons of Uranus]].) In 1886, Spanish artist [[Luis Ricardo Falero]] created a [[mezzotint]] print personifying Coma Berenices alongside Virgo and Leo.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1611047&partId=1&people=125549&peoA=125549-2-23&page=1|title=La chevelure de Berenice|publisher=[[British Museum]]| access-date =24 November 2016}}</ref> In 1892, the Russian poet [[Afanasy Fet]] made the constellation the subject of his short poem, composed for the Countess Natalya Sollogub.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://poesias.ru/rus-stihi/stihi-fet/stihi-fet10092.shtml |title=Стихотворение Фета А.А. "Графине Н. М. Соллогуб (О, Береника! Сердцем чую)"|publisher=Poesias.ru| language=ru| access-date =10 January 2017}}</ref> The Swedish poet [[Gunnar Ekelöf]] wrote the lines "Your friend the comet combed his hair with the [[Leonids]] / Berenice let her hair hang down from the sky" in a 1933 poem.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ekelöf |first=Gunnar |author-link=Gunnar Ekelöf |title=En självbiografi: efterlämnade brev och anteckningar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ISgAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 |year=2013|publisher=Albert Bonniers Förlag |isbn=978-91-0-013697-0 |page=126 |language=sv |quote=Din vän kometen kammade håret med Leoniderna / Berenice låt sitt hår hänga ner från himlen}}</ref> American writer and folksinger [[Richard Fariña]] mentions Coma Berenices in his 1966 novel ''[[Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me|Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me]]'', sardonically writing about content typical to upper-level astronomy coursework at [[Cornell University|Cornell]]: "It's the advanced courses give you trouble. Relativity principles, spiral nebula in Coma Berenices, that kind of hassle". The Bolivian poet, [[Pedro Shimose]], makes Coma Berenices the home address of his "Señorita NGC 4565" in his poem "Carta a una estrella que vive en otra constelación" ("Letter to a star who lives in another constellation"), included in his 1967 collection, "Sardonia".<ref>(La Paz:  Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 1967).</ref> "<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJoAjhihQhwC|title=Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me|last=Farina|first=Richard|date=1996-05-01|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-101-54952-0|page=27|language=en}}</ref> The Irish poet [[W. B. Yeats]], in his poem "Her Dream", refers to "Berenice's burning hair" being "nailed upon the night". Francisco Guerrero, a 20th-century Spanish composer, wrote an orchestral work on the constellation in 1996. In 1999 Irish artist [[Alice Maher]] made a series of four oversize drawings, entitled ''Coma Berenices'', of entwining black hair coils.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.84.html/2006/post-war-and-contemporary-irish-art-l06625| title =Coma Berenices (1 of 4)| publisher =[[Sotheby's]]| access-date =24 November 2016| archive-date =27 March 2019| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190327134632/http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.84.html/2006/post-war-and-contemporary-irish-art-l06625| url-status =dead}}</ref>