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Sascha Schneider
The Last Judgment
1896
watercolor and gouache on paper
(modello for mural)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Anonymous German Artist
The Last Judgment
ca. 1480
hand-colored woodcut
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Johann Wilhelm Baur
Jacob's Ladder
ca. 1635-40
gouache on paper
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Georg Lemberger
Jacob's Ladder
1524
hand-colored woodcut
(illustration to the "Luther" Bible)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Dominicus Custos after Jacopo Ligozzi
Angel supporting Dead Christ in Clouds
ca. 1600
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Palma il Giovane
Pietà in Clouds with Angels
before 1628
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Georg Pencz
Ascension of Christ
before 1550
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Urs Graf the Elder
Ascension of Christ
ca. 1510
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Rueland Frueauf the Elder
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1490-91
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Théodore Géricault after Titian
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle Bremen

Giovanni Domenico Piastrini
Assumption of the Virgin
before 1740
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Matthäus Gundelach
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1595
oil on copper
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Raphael
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1502-1504
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Coronation of the Virgin
1514
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Carlo Cesio
Coronation of the Virgin
ca. 1660
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Francesco Albani
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
ca. 1600
oil on copper
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Thus was wickedness on foot in every kind throughout all Greece by the occasion of their sedition.  Sincerity (whereof there is much in a generous nature) was laughed down; and it was far the best course to stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array, which no speech was so powerful nor oath terrible enough to disband.  And being all of them the more they considered the more desperate of assurance, they rather contrived how to avoid a mischief than were able to rely on any man's faith.  And for the most part, such as had the least wit had the best success; for both their own defect and the subtlety of their adversaries putting them into a great fear to be overcome in words, or at least in preinsidiation by their enemies' great craft, they therefore went roundly to work with them with deeds.  Whereas the other, not caring though they were perceived and thinking they needed not to take by force what they might do by plot, were thereby unprovided and so the more easily slain. 

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