Polemic

Anonymous German Artist
Sermon on the Mount
ca. 1550-75
hand-colored woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Baccio Bandinelli
Standing Prophet
ca. 1553-55
drawing
(study for marble relief)
Morgan Library, New York

Giacomo Cavedone
Seated Prophet
before 1660
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Albrecht Dürer
Christ among the Doctors
1506
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Prophet in Roundel
before 1818
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Luigi Garzi
St John the Baptist preaching
ca. 1680
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Franz Xaver Glink
Christ among the Doctors in the Temple
ca. 1825
oil on panel
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Anonymous Italian Artist
Christ among the Doctors
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Giovanni Antonio Lorenzini after Lorenzo Pasinelli
Preaching of St John the Baptist
ca. 1700
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Carlo Maratti
Preaching of St John the Baptist
1655
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Jan Massys
The Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta
1565
oil on panel
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Pietro Negroni
Preaching of St John the Baptist
ca. 1530-40
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael
St Paul preaching in Athens
ca. 1517-20
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Marco Ricci
Figure preaching among Ruins
1730
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Egon Schiele
Preacher (Self Portrait)
1913
ink and gouache
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Esaias van de Velde
Sermon of St John the Baptist
ca. 1621-22
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

In the meantime was Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, sent from Lacedaemon commander of the Grecians with twenty galleys out of Peloponnesus, with which went also thirty sail of Athens, besides a multitude of other confederates, and making war on Cyprus subdued the greatest part of the same, and afterwards, under the same commander, came before Byzantium, which they besieged and won. 

But Pausanias, being now grown insolent, both the rest of the Grecians and especially the Ionians who had newly recovered their liberty from the king, offended with him, came to the Athenians and requested them for consanguinity's sake to become their leaders and to protect them from the violence of Pausanias. The Athenians, accepting the motion, applied themselves both to the defence of these and also the ordering of the rest of the affairs there in such sort as it should seem best to themselves.  In the meantime the Lacedaemonians sent for Pausanias home to examine him of such things as they had heard against him.  For great crimes had been laid to his charge by the Grecians that came from thence; and his government was rather an imitation of tyranny than a command in war. 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)