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| Annibale Carracci St Roch distributing Alms ca. 1594-95 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Marcel Dzama Where All Harmonies Are Tuned 2011 inkjet print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Cecil Buller Market, Concarneau ca. 1915 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Diane Gamboa Lost and Found 1994 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| José García-Ramos Leaving a Masked Ball 1905 oil on canvas Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga |
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| Shirin Neshat Rapture Series 1999 C-print Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| attributed to Frans Verbeeck Burlesque Feast ca. 1550 oil on panel Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
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| George Bellows Tennis 1920 lithograph Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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| Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio Ancient School of Philosophy ca. 1520 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Baptism of Christ 18th century watercolor on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Ambrosius Francken the Elder Triumph of the Christ Child ca. 1605-1610 oil on panel private collection |
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| Arthur Devis Family of Sir Joshua Vanneck 1752 oil on canvas Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh |
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| Winslow Homer Station House Lodgers 1874 wood-engraving (magazine illustration) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Andreas Gursky Singapore Stock Exchange 1997 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Sebastian Vrancx The Fête ca. 1605 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Mario Giacomelli La Gente del Sud: Puglia 1958 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Noël Hallé Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes 1763 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
from The Clouds
[Chorus of Clouds]
Cloud-maidens that float on for ever,
Dew-sprinkled, fleet bodies, and fair,
Let us rise from our Sire's loud river,
Great Ocean, and soar through the air
To the peaks of the pine-covered mountains where the
pines hang as tresses of hair.
Let us seek the watchtowers undaunted,
Where the well-watered cornfields abound,
And through murmurs of rivers nymph-haunted
The songs of the sea-waves resound;
And the sun in the sky never wearies of spreading his
radiance around.
Let us cast off the haze
Of the mists from our band,
Till with far-seeing gaze
We may look on the land.
– Aristophanes (445-385 BC), translated by Oscar Wilde (1890)