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| Antonio Tempesta Battle Scene before 1630 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Antonio Tempesta Battle Scene 1605 drawing Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Antonio Tempesta Battle Scene before 1630 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
"Early darkness. Autumnal feeling. The apparent idyll permeated with disquiet, also with longing for the children. Again one of those unbelievable skies, red, streaked, night-blue all around us, apple-green strata."
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| Antonio Tempesta Bear Hunt before 1630 drawing British Museum |
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| Antonio Tempesta Boar Hunt before 1630 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Antonio Tempesta Lion Hunt before 1630 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
"Hardly anywhere else is the boundary between reason and insanity drawn and guarded as strictly as it is here in this country. It is no wonder that those who could not stand it ran away and that many over-adjusted people remained here (from which a state, but not a living society, can be made), and that the uneasy ones flee beneath the wings of the Church, which also does not really know what is happening to it."
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| Giacomo Cortese Landscape with huntsman before 1675 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacomo Cortese Cavalry on the march before 1675 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacomo Cortese Cavalry advancing to the charge before 1657 drawing British Museum |
"And that the tickets were so cheap and then even "almost a supper" came with it (at the appropriate point during the performance there were lard sandwiches and a glass of wine)."
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| Giacomo Cortese Assault on a castle before 1675 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacomo Cortese Infantry on the march before 1675 drawing British Museum |
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| Virgil Solis Landsknecht (mercenary soldier) with two-handed sword 1541 drawing British Museum |
"I was completely beside myself. I cannot and do not want to write about it. Something was there that concerned only me, far beyond the pain caused by that premature death. A horror and a sadness that I think I will now never get over, that I will be saturated with for the rest of my life. Something that concerns human life and destiny in general and which we do not learn as long as we are young. Which defies discussion. Now I see what depresses the older people so much."
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| Caspar Luyken Collapse of the Spanish Ambassador's house ca. 1696-98 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Caspar Luyken Tropical landscape with sea-serpent eating man ca. 1682-1708 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"Treacherous, my urge to go into the discount store on the marketplace now after all, and to make purchases that suddenly seem immediately urgent to me, heavy bottles, heavy sacks. As I stand at the packing counter and pack up the goods, I hear a man behind me asking the cashier: Isn't that . . . my name follows. The woman answers in the affirmative. To which the man says: Honecker even gave her a luxurious house. – It's working, I think to myself; I turn around and grin at the man and encounter the very familiar glassy stare. It is not a local man. Is that a comfort? When somebody tries to push through the door ahead of me as I leave, I push back as rudely as possible and force my way ahead. So, that was it then, I say to myself half aloud on the way to the car."
– quoted passages from One Day A Year, 1960-2000 by Christa Wolf, translated from German by Lowell A. Bangerter (Europa Editions, 2003)