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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Reconstruction of Hadrian's Mausoleum, Rome (partially surviving as Castel Sant'Angelo) 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist The Colosseum, Rome after 1581 drawing (copy of engraving from Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae) Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist St Andrew 17th century drawing (after sculpture by François Duquesnoy) Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Palace Courtyard 18th century drawing, with watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Simeon with the Christ Child in the Temple 18th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous French Artist Study of a Courtier 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist The Fall of Manna 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Seascape with The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ca. 1580-90 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist St John the Baptist in the Desert 16th-century drawing (design for painted window) Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Toilette of Venus ca. 1580 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Spanish Artist Study of Seated Man 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist Planting Trees 18th century gouache on vellum Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Portuguese Artist Ecce Homo ca. 1570 oil on panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Anonymous Portuguese Artist St Sebastian 17th century oil on canvas Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Anonymous French Printmaker Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante (Voltaire and Rousseau represented as a pair, despite their real-life antipathy toward one another) ca. 1790-1810 hand-colored engraving Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montmorency |
"Every artist loves applause. The praises of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. What then will he do to obtain it, if he have the misfortune to be born among a people, and at a time, when learning is in vogue, and the superficiality of youth is in a position to lead the fashion; when men have sacrificed their taste to those who tyrannize over their liberty, and one sex dare not approve anything but what is proportionate to the pusillanimity of the other*, when the greatest masterpieces of dramatic poetry are condemned, and the noblest of musical productions neglected? This is what he will do. He will lower his genius to the level of the age, and will rather submit to compose mediocre works, that will be admired during his life-time, than labour at sublime achievements which will not be admired till long after he is dead. Let the famous Voltaire tell us how many nervous and masculine beauties he has sacrificed to our false delicacy, and how much that is great and noble, that spirit of gallantry, which delights in what is frivolous and petty, has cost him."
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), translated by G.D.H. Cole (1913)
* "I am far from thinking that the ascendancy which women have obtained over men is an evil in itself. It is a present which nature has made them for the good of mankind. If better directed, it might be productive of as much good, as it is now of evil."