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| Lynn Chadwick Dance V - Composition with Two Figures 1955 painted iron and concrete Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Jakob Becher Dancer's Legs ca. 1860 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Ernst Deutsch (called Dryden) Richard's Grill Room, Berlin 1913 lithograph (poster) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Peter Cornelius Rue Pigalle, Paris ca. 1957 C-print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| François Dequevauviller Dancing School ca. 1780 engraving Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Edmond Aman-Jean Venetian Festival 1923 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
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| Edgar Degas La Fête de la Patronne 1878-79 pastel over monotype Musée Picasso, Paris |
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| Otto Dix To Beauty 1922 oil on canvas (central figure is self portrait) Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Urs Graf the Elder Landsknecht 1527 woodcut Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Monogrammist IK Soldier waving Banner 16th century woodcut Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Franz Marc Letter to Else Lasker-Schüler with Dancer ca. 1910 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Oskar Schlemmer Dancer (The Gesture) 1922-23 oil and tempera on canvas Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Virgil Solis Four Acrobats and an Ape before 1562 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| workshop of Jean-François de Troy Luncheon with Figures in Masquerade Dress 1725 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Jean-Baptiste Pater Fête Champêtre at Grape Harvest ca. 1730-32 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Joseph von Führich The Painters Koch, Dräger and Führich outside Osteria Scozzese in Rome ca. 1825-30 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
After this the Peloponnesians, seeing their engines availed not and thinking it hard to take the city by any present violence, prepared themselves to besiege it. But first they thought fit to attempt it by fire, being no great city, and when the wind should rise, if they could, to burn it, for there was no way they did not think on to have gained it without expense and long siege. Having therefore brought faggots, they cast them from the mount into the space between it and their new wall, which by so many hands was quickly filled, and then into as much of the rest of the city as at that distance they could reach and, throwing amongst them fire, together with brimstone and pitch, kindled the wood and raised such a flame, as the like was never seen before made by the hand of man. For as for the woods in the mountains, the trees have indeed taken fire; but it hath been by mutual attrition and have flamed out of their own accord. But this fire was a great one, and the Plataeans that had escaped other mischiefs wanted little of being consumed by this. For near the wall they could not get by a great way, and if the wind had been with it (as the enemy hoped it might), they could never have escaped. It is also reported that there fell much rain then with great thunder and that the flame was extinguished and the danger ceased by that.
– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)