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| Sebastiano del Piombo Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, his Secretary and two Geographers 1516 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Enea Salmeggia (il Talpino) Angel appearing to Two Saints in a Temple ca. 1605 drawing (study for painting formerly in Milan, but destroyed in World War II) British Museum |
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| Matthias Stom Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1630 oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Francesco Solimena Juno, Iris and Io with Argus ca. 1704-1708 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Louis de Silvestre Alexander the Great and Diogenes ca. 1750 oil on canvas Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire |
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| Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Diogenes and Alexander the Great ca. 1785 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Bivouac of Sans-Culottes 1790 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans |
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| Samuel Shelley Oedipus and Antigone ca. 1800 drawing Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Thomas Stothard Allegory of the Peace of Amiens 1802 drawing (design for transparency) British Museum |
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| David Scott Abraham and Isaac ca. 1840 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Carl Schindler Tavern Scene 1841 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Moritz von Schwind The Visit ca. 1860 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Charles Haslewood Shannon Hero and Leander ca. 1894 drawing (study for woodcut book illustration) British Museum |
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| Byam Shaw Design for Frontispiece to The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott ca. 1898 watercolor and gouache on board National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Joakim Skovgaard Adam and Eve tempted by Satan 1903 etching British Museum |
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| Theo Scharf Restaurant II ca. 1923 etching Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Jon Serl Liz ca. 1950 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from A Letter to a Friend upon the Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend
That Charles the Fifth was Crowned upon the day of his Nativity, it being in his own power so to order it, makes no singular Animadversion; but that he should also take King Francis Prisoner upon that day, was an unexpected Coincidence, which made the same remarkable. Antipater who had an Anniversary Feaver every Year upon his Birth-day, needed no Astrological Revolution to know what day he should dye on. When the fixed Stars have made a Revolution unto the points from whence they first set out, some of the Ancients thought the World would have an end; which was a kind of dying upon the day of its Nativity. Now the disease prevailing and swiftly advancing about the time of his Nativity, some were of Opinion, that he would leave the World on the day he entred into it: but this being a lingring Disease, and creeping softly on, nothing critical was found or expected, and he died not before fifteen days after. Nothing is more common with Infants than to dye on the day of their Nativity, to behold the worldly Hours and but the Fractions thereof; and even to perish before their Nativity in the hidden World of the Womb, and before their good Angel is conceived to undertake them. But in Persons who outlive many Years, and when there are no less than three hundred sixty five days to determine their Lives in every Year; that the first day should make the last, that the Tail of the Snake should return into its Mouth precisely at that time, and they should wind up upon the day of their Nativity, is indeed a remarkable Coincidence, which tho Astrology hath taken witty pains to salve, yet hath it been very wary in making Predictions of it.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1656)