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| Ancient Etruscan Culture Sarcophagus 210-100 BC alabaster relief Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra |
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| Guillaume Dupré Portrait of Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua 1612 bronze medallion Palazzo Ducale, Mantua |
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| Barthélemy Prieur Acrobat ca. 1580 bronze statuette Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Henry Moore Reclining Figure 1951 plaster Tate Britain |
"And things, what is the correct attitude to adopt towards things? And, to begin with, are they necessary? What a question. But I have few illusions, things are to be expected. The best is not to decide anything, in this connection, in advance. If a thing turns up, for some reason, or another, take it into consideration. Where there are people, it is said, there are things. Does this mean that when you admit the former you must also admit the latter? Time will tell. The thing to avoid, I don't know why, is the spirit of system. People with things, people without things, things without people, what does it matter, I flatter myself it will not take me long to scatter them, whenever I choose, to the winds. I don't see how. The best would be not to begin. But I have to begin. That is to say I have to go on. Perhaps in the end I shall smother in a throng. Incessant comings and goings, the crush and bustle of a bargain sale. No, no danger. Of that."
– Samuel Beckett, from The Unnamable (1953)
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| Coenraad Bloc Portrait of Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess Consort of Orange 1579 silver medallion Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Luder King William III departing for Ireland (to fight the Battle of the Boyne) 1690 silver medallion Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Anna Maria Braun Portrait of a Young Prince ca. 1670-1700 colored wax relief Collection of Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato |
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| Anna Maria Braun Portrait of a Man in Armour ca. 1670-1700 colored wax relief Collection of Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato |
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| Johann Gottfried Schadow Princess Frederica of Prussia ca. 1795 terracotta portrait study Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Johann Gottfried Schadow Princesses Luisa and Frederica of Prussia ca. 1795-97 marble statue group Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Heinrich Meyring (Enrico Merengo) Bust of a Woman ca. 1680-90 marble Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Pierre-Étienne Monnot Holy Family ca. 1700 marble relief (carved in Rome) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Demeter 415-410 BC marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Hermaphrodite fleeing Satyr 2nd century AD marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Aion Chronocrator (Time Lord) 2nd-1st century BC marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia |