Anonymous German Painter Gallery in the Old Museum 1896 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Anonymous German Photographer Italian Renaissance Gallery, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin ca. 1925-35 gelatin silver print Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Bénigne Gagneraux Meeting of King Gustav III of Sweden and Pope Pius VI in the Pio-Clementine Museum, Rome 1786 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy Interior of the Studio of Abel de Pujol 1822 oil on canvas Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
Norbert Grund Art Gallery ca. 1740 oil on canvas Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
Alois Hänisch Map Room at the Albertina, Vienna 1916 oil on canvas Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
Nora Heysen The Studio 1931 woodcut Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
Candida Höfer Villa Hügel, Essen II 2009 C-print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Georg Friedrich Kersting Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio 1811 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Johannes Laurentius Gallery View - Deities from Greek Sanctuaries 2011 digital photograph Altes Museum, Berlin |
Sigrid Lehrbäck Sculpture Gallery - Ateneum, Helsinki ca. 1898-1905 oil on canvas Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
Marcel-Eugène Louveau-Rouveyre Storage at Musée de Cluny, Paris ca. 1910 watercolor Morgan Library, New York |
Jean-André Rixens Opening Day at the Palais des Champs-Élysées 1890 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
Hubert Robert Young Artist drawing in Ruins of Roman Sculpture Gallery ca. 1775 drawing National Gallery, Athens |
Karel Slabbaert Painting Studio of St Luke ca. 1645-50 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Fritz Werner The Librarian ca. 1873 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Tamburlaine [to Zenocrate]:
Disdains Zenocrate to live with me?
Or you my Lordes to be my followers?
Thinke you I way this treasure more than you?
Not all the Gold in Indias welthy armes,
Shall buy the meanest souldier in my traine.
Zenocrate, lovelier than the Love of Jove,
Brighter than is the silver Rhodope,
Fairer than whitest snow on Scythian hils,
Thy person is more woorth to Tamburlaine,
Than the possession of the Persean Crowne,
Which gratious starres have promist at my birth.
A hundreth Tartars shall attend on thee,
Mounted on Steeds, swifter than Pegasus.
Thy Garments shall be made of Medean silke,
Enchast with precious juelles of mine owne:
More rich and valurous than Zenocrates.
With milke-white Hartes upon an Ivorie sled,
Thou shalt be drawen amidst the frosen Pooles,
And scale the ysie mountaines lofty tops:
Which with thy beautie will be soone resolv'd.
– Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, The First Part, act I, scene ii (1590)