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Monogrammist H.G.
Plan for Interior Architectural Ornament
ca. 1515
woodcut
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Albrecht Altdorfer
Church Interior
ca. 1520
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous Copyist after Sebastiano Serlio
Portal Design
1551
engraving
(book illustration printed by Jean de Tournes)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Wendel Dietterlin the Elder
Portal with Heroic Figures
1594
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Hendrik Hondius the Elder after Hans Vredeman de Vries
Perspective Study with Triumphal Arch in Ionic Order
1605
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Daniel Meyer
Decorative Arch celebrating Wine
1612
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Agostino Mitelli
Scene with Classical Ruins
1636
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Johann Franciscus Ermels
Ruin with Arches
ca. 1680
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Gioacchino Pizzoli
Capriccio of Ruins
ca. 1710
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pietro Righini
Set Design for Opera staged at La Scala, Milan
ca. 1730
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Domenico Fossati
Stage Design for Venetian Theater
1762
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Francesco Guardi
Venetian Palace Staircase
ca. 1775
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jean Grandjean
Study of Vaulting
before 1781
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Peter Joseph Krahe
Entrance Portal - Palazzo Sciarra, Rome
ca. 1783-84
drawing
Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig

Johann Christian Reinhart
Arch of Titus, Rome
ca. 1790-1800
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Francis Frith
Lindisfarne Abbey
ca. 1860
albumen print
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

The Lacedaemonians, after the business of Plataea, sent messengers presently up and down Peloponnesus and to their confederates without to have in readiness their forces and such things as should be necessary for a foreign expedition, as intending the invasion of Attica.  And when they were all ready, they came to the rendezvous in the isthmus at a day appointed, two-thirds of the forces of every city.  When the whole army was gotten together, Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians, general of the expedition, called together the commanders of the several cities and such as were in authority and most worthy to be present and spake unto them as followeth:  "Men of Peloponnesus and confederates, not only our fathers have had many wars, both within and without Peloponnesus, but we ourselves also, such as are anything in years, have been sufficiently acquainted therewith; yet did we never before set forth with so great a preparation as at this present.  And now, not only we are a numerous and puissant army that invade, but the state also is puissant that is invaded by us.  We have reason therefore to show ourselves neither worse than our fathers nor short of the opinion conceived of ourselves.  For all Greece is up at this commotion observing us, and through their hatred of the Athenians do wish that we may accomplish whatsoever we intend.  . . . "

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