Lavish

Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders
Crowning of Diana
1620
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Antonio Joli
Masque Design for Barque of Diana the Huntress
1740
watercolor on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Gustav Klimt
Fulfillment
1911
mixed media on paper
(study for mosaic frieze)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Filippo Vasconi
Festival Edifice in Piazza di Spagna, Rome
1728
etching
Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Joseph Heintz the Elder
Coronation of the Virgin
1602
oil on canvas (altarpiece)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Jan Brueghel the Younger
The Triumph of Death
ca. 1620
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Georg Lemberger
The Whore of Babylon
1524
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to the "Luther" Bible)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

François de Troy
Feast of Dido and Aeneas
(portrait historié of the duc du Maine and his family)
1704
oil on canvas
Musée d'Île de France, Château de Sceaux

Johann Georg Platzer
Fête Galante
1736
oil on copper
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld
Triumph of Venus
ca. 1640-45
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Frans Francken the Younger
Allegory of Opportunity
1628
oil on panel
Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord

Jean Jouvenet
Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee
ca. 1706
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Cornelis de Baellieur
A Collector's Gallery
ca. 1640
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Red and White Grapes
1841
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Theude Grønland
Floral Piece with Putti
1858
oil on canvas
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Dora Dolz
Pink Vase with Flowers
1997
glass
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

In this manner spake the Mytilenaeans.  And the Lacedaemonians and their confederates, when they had heard and allowed their reasons, decreed not only a league with the Lesbians but also again to make an invasion into Attica.  And to that purpose the Lacedaemonians appointed their confederates there present to make as much speed as they could with two parts of their forces into the isthmus; and they themselves being first there prepared engines in the isthmus for the drawing up of galleys, with intention to carry the navy from Corinth to the other sea that lieth towards Athens, and to set upon them both by sea and land.  And these things diligently did they.  But the rest of the confederates assembled but slowly, being busied in the gathering in of their fruits and weary of warfare.

The Athenians, perceiving all this preparation to be made upon an opinion of their weakness and desirous to let them see they were deceived as being able, without stirring the fleet at Lesbos, easily to master the fleet that should come against them out of Peloponnesus, manned out a hundred galleys and embarked therein generally, both citizens (except those of the degree of Pentacosiomedimni and Horsemen) and also strangers that dwelt amongst them, and sailing to the isthmus made a show of their strength and landed their soldiers in such parts of Peloponnesus as they thought fit.  When the Lacedaemonians saw things so contrary to their expectations, they thought it false which was spoken by the Lesbian ambassadors, and esteeming the action difficult, seeing their confederates were not arrived and that news was brought of the wasting of the territory near their city by the thirty galleys formerly sent about Peloponnesus by the Athenians, went home again . . .

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