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Carl Fredrik Sundt-Hansen Man with Pipe 1900 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Ralph Aulie Styker Portrait of a Man 1956 oil on canvas Valdres Folkmuseum, Fagernes, Norway |
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Rembrandt Study of a Woman in a White Cap (Head of Servant Woman) ca. 1640 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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Pablo Picasso Bust of a Man 1905 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Henri Martin Young Woman 1904 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Anonymous Italian Artist Virgin and Child ca. 1430-50 terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of a Man ca. 1797 drawing Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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Ancient Greek Culture Grave Stele of Athlete 550-540 BC marble relief (excavated in Athens) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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Halfdan Egedius Classical Bust 1892 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Gustave Courbet Portrait of the artist's sister Juliette ca. 1843 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki Portrait of diplomat Franciszek Czacki 1773 drawing National Museum, Warsaw |
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Joseph Chinard Portrait of Dominique Vivant-Denon 1805 terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Philippe de Champaigne Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu 1642 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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Julia Margaret Cameron Mother of Salome 1870 albumen silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Adam Camerarius Apollo ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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Jacques-Raymond Brascassat Roman Woman ca. 1829 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
Now the fruit season was at its height, and the grapes were ripe for harvesting. Everyone was working in the fields: some were getting winepresses ready for use; some were cleaning out wine jars; some were plaiting wicker baskets. One man was attending to a small reaphook for cutting the bunches of grapes; another to a stone for squeezing the juice out of the grapes; another to a dry willow twig that had been battered into shreds to make a torch so that the sweet new wine could be drawn off at night. Daphnis and Chloe too stopped looking after their goats and sheep and gave the others a helping hand. He carried bunches of grapes in baskets, put them in the winepresses and trod them, and drew off the wine into the jars. She prepared food for the grape pickers, poured out drinks of mature wine for them, and picked the grapes off the vines that were nearer the ground. In Lesbos all the vines are low; they do not grow up high and are not trained on trees, but they let their shoots hang down and are spread out like ivy.
– Longus, from Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Christopher Gill (1989)