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| Adam de Colone George Seton, 8th Lord Seton and 3rd Earl of Winton with his Sons 1625 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Family in Prayer ca. 1545-55 oil on panel Dordrechts Museum |
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| Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Portrait of the Raffenberg Family 1830 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Svein Bolling Death in the Heart ca. 1997-2002 drawing Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Lovis Corinth The Artist and his Family ca. 1910 oil on canvas Landesmuseum Hannover |
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| Gustave Courbet Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his Children in 1853 1865 oil on canvas Musée du Petit Palais, Paris |
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| Conrad Faber von Creuznach Portrait of Justinian von Holzhausen and his wife Anna, née Fürstenberg, with Cupid 1536 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Hans Gjesme Portrait ca. 1925 oil on canvas Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Isaac Grünewald Fellow Artists 1909 oil on canvas Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Willy Jaeckel Family 1914 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Peder Severin Krøyer The Artist (left) at Luncheon with his wife Marie and writer Otto Benzon 1893 oil on canvas Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen |
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| Gari Melchers The Family ca. 1895-96 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Johann August Nahl the Younger Hector's Farewell ca. 1814-16 oil on canvas (sketch) Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| James Tissot The Garden Bench ca. 1883 mezzotint High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Wallerant Vaillant Portrait of a Woman with Three Children ca. 1660 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jan Woutersz The Consultation ca. 1630 oil on panel Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
Of Thetis I sing, the golden-haired goddess,
Daughter of Nereus, the Lord of the Ocean,
Married to Peleus at mighty Zeus's wishing,
The star of the sea waves, our own Aphrodite.
The child of her womb was the noble Achilles,
Who fought like the War God and raged in the battle,
Where spear flashed like lightning, whose fame lives forever.
Neoptolemos, the son Pyrrha bore him,
Death-dealer to Trojans but Greece's salvation,
Neoptolemos, we pray you, be gracious;
Showered with blessings in your tomb here in Delphi,
Smile and accept the offering we bring you.
From all tribulation deliver our city.
Of Thetis I sing, the golden-haired goddess.
– Heliodorus, from The Aethiopica, or, Theagenes and Charikleia (3rd or 4th century AD), translated from Greek by J.R. Morgan (1989)