Flights

Artur Boström
Staircase of the Giants, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Domenico Fetti
Parable of the Ungrateful Servant
ca. 1619-21
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Eduard Gaertner
Staircase in the Berlin Palace
1825
oil on canvas
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin

François-Marius Granet
Interior of a Roman Convent
ca. 1830
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Francesco Guardi
Palace Courtyard with Staircase
ca. 1780
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Robert Haglund
Staircase of the Riddarhuset
1891
etching
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Anonymous Italian Artist
Interior of a Barn
ca. 1800-1850
drawing
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Anonymous Italian Artist
Stage Design with Abduction of Sabine Women
ca. 1750-1800
drawing, with added watercolor
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Juan de Flandes
Ecce Homo
ca. 1500
tempera on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Sitting Room
1923
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Arild Kristo
Four on Steps by the Seine
1962
gelatin silver print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Peder Severin Krøyer
Loggia in Ravello
1890
oil on panel
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Alexandre Lunois
Laundresses
1893
engraving
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Constant Moyaux
Propylaea, Acropolis, Athens
1864
watercolor on paper
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Giovanni Maria dalle Piane (il Molinaretto)
Portrait of Carlos de Borbón, Duke of Parma
1732
oil on canvas
Palacio Real de La Granja de San Ildefonso

Fleury Richard
Michel de Montaigne
visiting Torquato Tasso in Prison
1822
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Theagenes entreated her to keep her tongue from blasphemy and advised her to set even greater store by piety than by chastity, but Charikleia continued her tirade until she suddenly broke off to exclaim: "Heaven have mercy upon us!  Such a dream I dreamed last night – if dream it was, and not reality!  At the time it somehow slipped from my thoughts, but now it comes back to me.  The dream was in the form of a line of verse, and it came from the lips of Kalasiris, most blessed among men.  Either I fell asleep without realizing, and he came to me in a dream, or else I saw him in the very flesh.  It went something like this, I think:

If you wear pantarbe fear-all, fear not the power of flame:

Miracles may come to pass: for Fate 'tis easy game.

Theagenes shook like a man possessed and, so far as his chains permitted, sprang to his feet. "May heaven look kindly upon us!" he cried. "Memory is making a poet of me too!  I have an oracle from the selfsame prophet; be it Kalasiris or a god in Kalasiris's shape, he appeared to me and seemed to speak these words:

Ethiopia's land with a maiden shalt thou see: 
Tomorrow from Arsake's bonds shalt thou be free.

– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)