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| Antoine Vollon Mound of Butter ca. 1875-85 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Karen Rebekka Vasstrand Untitled 1990 oil on canvas KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| Oskar Schlemmer Study of Figure Group 1930 drawing (colored pencils) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Aegidius Sadeler the Younger Great Hall in Prague Castle 1607 engraving (two plates) Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Benigno Bossi Design for Memorial Frontispiece 1786 drawing (print study) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Brosamer Drapery Study before 1554 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Maurice Denis Mount Vesuvius 1904 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Benvenuto Cellini Design for Salt Cellar before 1571 drawing Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Ornamental Tripod 1543 etching Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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| François Langlois after Padovanino Portrait of Joseph Justus ca. 1630-40 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg |
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| Andrea Mantegna Virgin and Child before 1506 engraving Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann David Passavant Holy Family with St Elizabeth and young John the Baptist 1819 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Carolus-Duran Lady in Black 1859 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Arnold Johansen Henrik 2009 C-print Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
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| Georges de Geetere Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1910 oil on canvas Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels |
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Portrait of Louise Mayer 1836 oil on canvas Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
We are men in the evening when we drink together, but when day-break comes, we get up wild beasts preying on each other.
I care not for the wealth of Gyges the King of Sardis, nor does gold take me captive, and I praise not tyrants. I care to drench my beard with scent and crown my head with roses. I care for to-day; who knows to-morrow?
Moulding the silver make me, Hephaestus, no suit of armour, but fashion as deep as thou canst a hollow cup, and work on it neither stars nor chariots nor hateful Orion,* but blooming vines and laughing clusters with lovely Bacchus.
The best measure of wine is neither much nor very little; for it is the cause of either grief or madness. It pleases the wine to be the fourth mixed with three Nymphs. Then it is most suited for the bridal chamber too, but if it breathe too fiercely, it puts the Loves to flight and plunges us in a sleep which is neighbour to death.
Caught, Thrasybulus, in the net of a boy's love, thou gapest like a dolphin on the beach, longing for the waves, and not even Perseus' sickle is sharp enough to cut through the net that binds thee.
Drink and take thy delight; for none knows what is to-morrow or what is the future. Hasten not and toil not; be generous and give according to thy power, eat and let thy thoughts befit a mortal: there is no difference between living and not living. All life is such, a mere turn of the scale; all things are thine if thou art beforehand, but if thou diest, another's, and thou hast nothing.
– from Book XI (Convivial and Satirical Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*alluding to the shield of Achilles described by Homer