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| Bartolomeo Montagna Penitent St Jerome ca. 1500-1507 oil and tempera on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Pietro Perugino St Jerome in the Wilderness ca. 1498-1502 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen |
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| Hans Baldung St Jerome ca. 1506 chiaroscuro woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| El Greco St Jerome ca. 1610-14 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco The Annunciation ca. 1616 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Niccolò Circignani (il Pomarancio) The Annunciation ca. 1560 oil on panels Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| Hans Baldung Virgin and Child with Cherubs 1516 oil on panel Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1527-30 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Matthias Stom Adoration of the Magi ca. 1633 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Correggio (Antonio Allegri) Adoration of the Child ca. 1518-20 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Giuseppe Caletti (il Cremonese) St Roch kneeling on a Stone ca. 1620-30 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pierre Subleyras Drapery Study - Kneeling Prelate before 1749 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Return of the Prodigal Son 1730 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Rueland Frueauf the Elder Christ on the Mount of Olives ca. 1490-91 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Hippolyte Flandrin Sacrifice of Isaac ca. 1860 oil on board Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Hippolyte Flandrin Fra Angelico overcome with Piety while Painting and spied upon by Adoring Angels 1894 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
The Plataeans, when they perceived that the Thebans were already entered and had surprised the city, through fear and opinion that more were entered than indeed were (for they could not see them in the night), came to composition and accepting the conditions rested quiet, and the rather, for that they had yet done no man harm. But whilst that these things were treating, they observed that the Thebans were not many and thought that if they should set upon them, they might easily have the victory. For the Plataean commons were not willing to have revolted from the Athenians. Wherefore it was thought fit to undertake the matter, and they united themselves by digging through the common walls between house and house that they might not be discovered as they passed the streets. They also placed carts in the streets without the cattle that drew them to serve them instead of a wall, and every other thing they put in readiness, as they severally seemed necessary for the present enterprise. When all things according to their means were ready, they marched from their houses towards the enemies, taking their time while it was yet night and a little before the break of day because they would not have to charge them when they should be emboldened by the light and on equal terms, but when they should by night be terrified and inferior to them in knowledge of the places of the city. So they forthwith set upon them and came quickly up to hand strokes.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)