Assertions

Giuseppe Ghislandi (Fra Vittore Galgario)
Portrait of Bartolomeo Manganoni
1696
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne

Michele Giambono
The Sudarium
before 1462
tempera on panel
Palazzo Malaspina, Pavia

Felice Giani
Personification of Justice and Peace
ca. 1813-18
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Corrado Giaquinto
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1754
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts
Trompe l'Oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still Life
1668
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Eric Gill
A.R.P. (Air Raid Precaution) Badge
ca. 1939
molded metal
British Museum

Sam Gilliam
T-Shirt
1973
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Harold Gilman
Norwegian Interior
(compositional study for painting)
1913
drawing
British Museum

Luca Giordano
The Finding of Moses
ca. 1685-90
 oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
Hercules and the Cretan Bull
ca. 1514-15
engraving
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anne-Louis Girodet
Armin witnessing the Deaths of his Children
(scene from James Macpherson's Ossian)
ca. 1799
drawing (study for painting)
British Museum

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger
Virgin of the Rosary
before 1544
watercolor on paper
(formerly owned by Joshua Reynolds)
British Museum

Hans Gjesme
Life Class
ca. 1920-23
drawing
Sogn-og-Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway

Milton Glaser and Cosmos Sarchiapone 
Reciprocal Portraits of Each Other
1976
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Grigory Gluckmann
Full-Blown
ca. 1955
oil on panel
Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Hendrik Goltzius after Anthonie Blocklandt
Departure of Lot from Sodom
1582
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Henry Goodwin
Dr James Murray and his son at Sunnyside, Oxford
(photographed while editing the Oxford English Dictionary)
1907
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

from The Father of the Family

    "It seems, moreover, that nature has not only created animals for men's service but has also made some men fit to obey for the service of those men who are fit to rule.  Consequently, the acquisitions made by preying upon an enemy in war are also just, provided the war is just, and I do not want to omit Thucydides' observation, in the preface to his history, that in the most ancient times the art of preying was not shameful.  We see in reading the poets that asking a man whether he is a pirate is hardly an insult, and Virgil reflects this custom or way of speaking when he puts the following boast in the mouth of Numanus:

                            We crush grey hair with a helmet and rejoice

                            To gather fresh prey and live by plunder.

Today, the booty that the Knights of Malta and others have taken from the people of Barbary can be called a natural and just acquisition.  Thus it seems that all these arts of natural acquisition, and especially agriculture, are suitable for the father of the family, and if he were to blend all these arts and market all the things he gets by them, he might perhaps practice an art that would not be unseemly for a father.  This art is now commonly called trade, and there are many kinds of it.  Most just is the kind that transports the surplus goods from one region to another where they are needed and returns with things from the second region that are lacking in the first.  Discussing this subject in the Offices, Cicero says that trade is sordid when conducted on a small scale, but when carried out on a grand scale is not to be blamed overmuch."

– Torquato Tasso (ca. 1580), translated by Dain A. Trafton and Carnes Lord (1982)