 |
| Georg Fennitzer Portrait of artist Tobias Hertz ca. 1700 mezzotint Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel |
 |
| Jan Kupecký Self Portrait 1709 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
 |
| Carlo Maratti Allegory of Painting before 1713 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
 |
| Jean-Étienne Liotard Self Portrait ca. 1751-52 pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
 |
| Johann Gottlieb Prestel Self Portrait at the Easel 1756 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
 |
| Joseph Roques Self Portrait 1783 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
 |
| Marie-Victoire Lemoine Self Portrait ca. 1785 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans |
 |
| Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist Self Portrait copying the Bélisaire of Jacques-Louis David 1786 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
 |
| Friedrich Philipp Reinhold Artist Johann Christoph Erhard at Work 1818 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
 |
| Anonymous British Photographer Edward Burne-Jones in the Studio ca. 1890 photogravure British Museum |
 |
| Käthe Kollwitz Two Self Portraits ca. 1895 etching and drypoint Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
 |
| August Hagborg Anders Zorn in his Studio 1901 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
 |
| Max Slevogt Self Portrait at the Easel ca. 1910 oil on canvas Pomeranian State Museum, Greifswald |
 |
| Max Liebermann Self Portrait 1916 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Bremen |
 |
| Rudolf Levy Portrait of painter Hans Purrmann 1931 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
 |
| Thomas Hart Benton Self Portrait 1972 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
Thus the Athenians quickly raised their walls, the structure itself making manifest the haste used in the building. For the foundation consisteth of stones of all sorts, and those in some places overwrought and as they were brought to the place. Many pillars together among the rest. For the circuit of the city was set every way farther out, and therefore hastening they took alike whatsoever came next to hand. Themistocles likewise persuaded them to build up the rest of Piraeus, for it was begun in the year that himself was archon of Athens, as conceiving the place both beautiful, in that it had three natural havens, and that being now seamen, it would very much conduce to the enlargement of their power. For he was indeed the first man that dared tell them that they ought to take upon them the command of the sea, and withal presently helped them in the obtaining it. By his counsel also it was that they built the wall of that breadth about Piraeus which is now to be seen. For two carts carrying stones met and passed upon it one by another. And yet within it there was neither rubbish nor mortar, but it was made all of great stones cut square and bound together with iron and lead. But for height it was raised but to the half, at the most, of what he had intended. For he would have had it able to hold out the enemy both by the height and breadth, and that a few and the less serviceable men might have sufficed to defend it and the rest have served in the navy. For principally he was addicted to the sea because, as I think, he had observed that the forces of the king had easier access to invade them by sea than by land, and thought that Piraeus was more profitable than the city above. And oftentimes he would exhort the Athenians that, in case they were oppressed by land, they should go down thither and with their galleys make resistance against what enemy soever.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)