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| Caroline von der Embde Young Woman reading at a Window ca. 1850-55 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Albin Egger-Lienz Cherso Island ca. 1920-23 oil on canvas Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg Draped Seated Model ca. 1810-20 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Josef Engelhart Grecian Draperies 1902 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Eworth Portrait of a Lady of the Wentworth Family 1563 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| James Ensor Still Life with Chinoiserie ca. 1906 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Antje Egter van Wissekerke Cactuses ca. 1915 lithograph Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Anna Ekvall In Front of the Red Curtain 1991 lithograph Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| William Elder Portrait of physician Sir Théodore de Mayerne ca. 1680 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg |
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| Hellmut Eichrodt Portrait of a Young Woman 1914 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Cornelis Engebrechtsz Christ in the House of Mary and Martha ca. 1515-20 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Thorvald Erichsen Red Knoll 1908 oil on canvas Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Martin Esslinger Portrait of Young Man in Renaissance Style ca. 1830 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Hans Rudi Erdt Excelsior Gummi Absätze (rubber heels) 1911 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| El Greco Agony in the Garden ca. 1600-1610 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Terry Evans Above Lake Worth, Marion Samson Park 2014 inkjet print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
An Oracle of the Pythia: Glaucus, son of Epicydes, thus it profits more for the moment, to win by perjury and to plunder wealth. Swear, for death awaits also the man who keeps his sworn word, but Oath hath a nameless child; neither hands nor feet hath he, but swiftly he pursues, till he catches and destroys the race and all the house. But the race of a man who abides by his oath fares better in after generations.
(Glaucus had ventured to ask the oracle if he might take a false oath, and thus cheat the claimants of a sum of money that had been entrusted to him.)
An Oracle of the Pythia: O wretched people, why sit ye still? Fly to the ends of the earth, leaving your houses and the lofty summit of the wheel-like city. For neither shall her head remain in its place, nor her body, nor the feet at her extremity, nor the hands, nor is any of the middle left, but all is undiscernible; for she is laid in the dust by fire and by keen Ares driving his Syrian chariot. Many other fortresses shall he destroy, not thine alone, and give to devouring fire many temples of the immortals, which now stand with the sweat running down them, and shaking with fear, and on the summit of their roofs rains black blood foreshadowing inevitable disaster. But get you gone from the holy place and steep your souls in calamity.
(Foretelling the capture of Athens by the Persians.)
An Oracle of the Pythia: Pallas may not appease the wrath of Olympian Zeus, beseeching him with many words and subtle counsel. And this word I will tell thee again, setting it in adamant. For when all else is taken that the boundary of Cecrops and the dell of divine Cithaeron contain, a wooden wall doth far-seeing Zeus give to Athena the Trito-born, to remain alone untormented, and that shall profit thee and thy children. Abide not in quiet the horsemen and the great host of footmen that cometh from the land, but turn thy back and give way: yet there shall come a day when thou shalt be the death of the children of women, either when Demeter is cast abroad or when she is gathered in.
(Foretelling the Greek victory at Salamis.)
An Oracle of the Pythia: Hated by thy neighbours, but dear to the immortal gods, sit guarded with the defence inside thee and look to thy head; it is the head that shall save the body.
(Oracle given to the Argives against joining the resistance to the Persians.)
Spoken by the Pythia to the Emperor Hadrian: Thou askest me that which is unknown to thee, the parentage and country of the ambrosial Siren. A certain Ithaca was the seat of Homer, Telemachus was his father, and his mother Nestor's daughter, Polycaste. Her son was he, the most excellently wise of all mortals.
– from Book XIV (Arithmetical Problems, Riddles, Oracles) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)