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| Martin Kippenberger Fighting Bedsores 1986 screenprint (poster) Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Carl Jacob Malmberg Untitled ca. 1875 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Penitent Magdalen ca. 1540 oil on panel Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Max Pechstein The Green Sofa 1910 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Théodore Géricault Study for Raft of the Medusa 1818-19 drawing (figure) Musée Bonnat Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Sebastiano Mazzoni Painting crowned by Fame ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Abraham Constantin Penitent Magdalen 1825 enamel on porcelain Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Giovanni Baglione Mocking of Christ ca. 1610 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Ivar Arosenius Portrait of sculptor Gerhard Henning 1907 tempera on panel Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Annibale Carracci Venus at Rest ca. 1602 drawing (study for painting) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Andreas Denker Mythological Scene ca. 1720-30 gouache on vellum Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Dorothea Tanning Tango 1977 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Emanuel Vigeland Couple ca. 1920-30 drawing, with watercolor Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Master FP Virtue triumphing over Vice ca. 1530-50 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| François Gérard Portrait of Juliette Récamier ca. 1803-1805 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Gustave Courbet Le Sommeil 1866 oil on canvas Musée du Petit Palais, Paris |
The mighty Nile is everything to them: a river, a land, a sea, a lake – affording to the eye novel conjunctions of ships and spades, paddles and plows, rudders and sickles, where sailors consort with farmers and cattle are neighbors to fish. You sow where once you sailed, and the field you sow is a sea brought under cultivation. The river, you see, keeps to a schedule of visits, an Egyptian may sit and wait for the river's arrival, counting the days. The Nile never forgets its obligations, but watches for deadlines and measures out its water. It is a river unwilling to be found unpunctual. River and land can be seen to strive in friendly competition, the river turning so much land into a sea, the land in turn absorbing so great and sweet a sea. Their victories show perfect equality – neither is ever the loser; the water and land are always coterminous.
– Achilles Tatius, from Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by John J. Winkler (1989)