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| Emil Orlik Parfumerie Gottlieb Taussig, Vienna 1897 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Emil Orlik Smoker ca. 1897 color woodblock print Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Emil Orlik Woman in a Compartment ca. 1900 woodcut Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Emil Orlik Ex Libris - Emil Orlik 1897 lithograph Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Mars and Rhea Silvia ca. 1616-17 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Holy Family with Parrot ca. 1614 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Discovery of the Infant Erichthonius ca. 1616 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus ca. 1618 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Virgin and Child with Saints ca. 1730-33 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints before 1770 drawing Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo St Roch as Pilgrim ca. 1730 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Roman Matrons making offerings to Juno ca. 1745-50 oil on canvas High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| John Nixon Untitled 2002 collage of cut and found printed paper Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| John Nixon Untitled 2005 collage of cut and found printed paper Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
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| John Nixon Brown and Blue Cross 1985 enamel on hessian Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| John Nixon Black and Orange Cross 1992 enamel on board Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
from Part Five of The Age of Anxiety
Rosetta had shown the men where everything was and, as they trotted between the kitchen and the living room, cutting sandwiches and fixing drinks, all felt that it was time something exciting happened and decided to do their best to see that it did. Had they been perfectly honest with themselves, they would have had to admit that they were tired and wanted to go home alone to bed. That they were not was in part due, of course, to vanity, the fear of getting too old to want fun or too ugly to get it, but also to unselfishness, the fear of spoiling the fun for others. Besides, only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. So it was now as Rosetta switched on the radio which said:
Music past midnight. For men in the armed
Forces on furlough and their feminine consorts,
For our war-workers and women in labor,
For Bohemian artists and owls of the night,
We present a series of savage selections
By brutal bands from bestial tribes,
The Quaraquorams and the Quaromanlics,
The Arsocids and the Alonites,
The Ghuzz, the Guptas, the gloomy Krimchaks,
The Timurids and Torguts, with terrible cries
Will drag you off to their dram retreats
To dance with your deaths till the dykes collapse.
For our war-workers and women in labor,
For Bohemian artists and owls of the night,
We present a series of savage selections
By brutal bands from bestial tribes,
The Quaraquorams and the Quaromanlics,
The Arsocids and the Alonites,
The Ghuzz, the Guptas, the gloomy Krimchaks,
The Timurids and Torguts, with terrible cries
Will drag you off to their dram retreats
To dance with your deaths till the dykes collapse.
– W.H. Auden (1944-46)