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| Waldemar Eide Russian dancer Vera Fokina as Salome 1919 gelatin silver print Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Hollerbaum & Schmidt (printers) Viola Villany ca. 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jakob Kaschauer St Peter enthroned as Pope ca. 1440-45 painted lindenwood statuette Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Gösta Adrian-Nilsson Pase de Muleta 1927 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Diane Arbus Albino Sword Swallower at a Carnival, Maryland 1970 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| François Boucher Odalisque ca. 1745 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Hera 280-270 BC marble (excavated on Samos) Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of poet Nikolay Nekrasov ca. 1877-78 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Michelangelo Maestri Allegorical Figure ca. 1800 gouache on card (imitation of Pompeian fresco) Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Adolph Menzel Worker pulling off Shirt ca. 1872-74 drawing (study for painting) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Stanley Spencer Study for The Robing of Christ 1922 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Alexander Rothaug Crucify Him! ca. 1930 tempera on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Flaminio Torri (Flaminio Torre) Penitent Magdalen ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Albert Joseph Moore Acacias ca. 1880 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Bernard van Orley Holy Family ca. 1540 oil on panel Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier Thalia, Muse of Comedy 1739 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Palace of the Legion of Honor) |
"But, as the saying goes, the unfortunate can nowhere escape their misfortune. Even in that lonely spot Charikleia's beauty attracted unwelcome attention. Our shipmate, that Tyrian merchant turned Pythian champion, came to me many times in private and wearied me to the point of annoyance with his persistent entreaties that I – whom he took for Charikleia's father – should grant him her hand in marriage. He loudly sang his own praises, in turns reciting his noble pedigree and reckoning up the riches he had with him: the ship was his own private property, he said, and he was the owner of most of the cargo she was carrying – gold, priceless gems, and silken raiment; he also spoke of his victory in the Pythian Games, which he considered as greatly enhancing his standing, and of much else besides. I used our penurious circumstances as an excuse and said that I could never bring myself to marry my daughter to a man who lived in foreign parts and in a country so far removed from Egypt."
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)