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Johannes Zainer
Jason and Medea with the Head of her brother Absyrtus
1473
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to De Mulieribus Claris of Boccaccio)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Conversion of St Paul
1493
woodcut and letterpress
(illustration to  the Nuremberg Chronicle)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Luca Signorelli
St James the Greater with Living and Dead Pilgrim
ca. 1508
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
St George and the Dragon
ca. 1510
bronze plaquette
Bode Museum, Berlin

Hans Schäufelein
Woman on Horseback
ca. 1510
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Jan Swart van Groningen
Mounted Arabian Lancers
1526
woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Melchior Lorck
Warrior with Winged Helmet
1576
woodcut
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Jost Amman
Knight on Horseback
1578
woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Anonymous Artist
Woman on Caparisoned Mount followed by Attendant
ca. 1595-1605
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Antonio Tempesta
Semiramis
(series of figures from Orlando Furioso)
1597
etching
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen,Dresden

Cesare Agostino Bonacina
Woman on Rearing Horse
ca. 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Andreas Schlüter
Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg
1712
bronze figures on alabaster base
(reduced copy of monument)
Bode Museum, Berlin

Johann Nepomuk Hoechle
Russian Cavalryman
ca. 1810-15
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Arnold Böcklin
The Adventurer
1882
tempera on canvas
Kunsthalle Bremen

Fritz Roeber
Before the Ride
1898
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Cavalryman
before 1901
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

After the second invasion of the Peloponnesians the Athenians, having their fields now the second time wasted and both the sickness and war falling upon them at once, changed their minds and accused Pericles, as if by his means they had been brought into these calamities, and desired earnestly to compound with the Lacedaemonians, to whom also they sent certain ambassadors, but they returned without effect.  And being then at their wits' end, they kept a stir at Pericles.  And he, seeing them vexed with their present calamity and doing all those things which he had before expected, called an assembly (for he was yet general) with intention to put them again into heart and, assuaging their passion, to reduce their minds to a more calm and less dismayed temper.  And standing forth, he spake unto them in this manner:

"Your anger towards me cometh not unlooked for, for the cause of it I know.  And I have called this assembly, therefore, to remember you and reprehend you for those things wherein you have either been angry with me or given way to your adversity without reason.  For I am of this opinion, that the public prosperity of the city is better for private men than if the private men themselves were in prosperity and the public wealth in decay.  For a private man, though in good estate, if his county come to ruin, must of necessity be ruined with it; whereas he that miscarrieth in a flourishing commonwealth shall much more easily be preserved.  Since then the commonwealth is able to bear the calamities of private men, and everyone cannot support the calamities of the commonwealth, why should not everyone strive to defend it and not, as you now, astonished with domestic misfortune, forsake the common safety and fall a-censuring both me that counselled the war and yourselves that decreed the same as well as I?  And it is I you are angry withal, one, as I think myself, inferior to none either in knowing what is requisite or in expressing what I know,  and a lover of my country, and superior to money.  For he that hath good thoughts and cannot clearly express them were as good to have as nothing at all.  He that can do both and is ill affected to his country will likewise not give it faithful counsel.  And he that will do that too yet if he be superable by money will for that alone set all the rest to sale.  Now if you followed my advice in making this war, as esteeming these virtues to be in me somewhat above the rest, there is sure no reason that I should now be accused of doing you wrong."

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