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Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas ca. 1881-86 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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Maria Marc Frogs and Grasshopper ca. 1911 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Adolph Menzel Supper at the Ball 1878 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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William Klein Vogue American Collection 1957 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Luca Cambiaso Diana and Callisto ca. 1570 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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Wilhelm Ferdinand Bendz Life Class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 1826 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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Harald Dal Svolvær 1936 oil on canvas Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø |
Ken Heyman Peruvian Women learning to Read 1959 gelatin silver print Dayton Art Institute, Ohio |
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Jasper Hagenaar Nightswimming #3 2021 oil on paper, mounted on panel Dordrechts Museum |
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Hans Hofmann Vase on a Red Table 1938 oil on panel Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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Jenny Holzer Untitled (from the Truisms series) 1982 C-print Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Still Life with Sculptures and Flowers 1912 oil on canvas Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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Bjørn Krzywinski Time 1991 oil on canvas KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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attributed to Carle von Aegeri Fire from Heaven 1545 painted glass Landesmuseum Zürich |
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Jean-Théodore Dupas Three Horse Heads from the French Line's Normandie ca. 1934 gold and silver leaf on glass panel Princeton University Art Museum |
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Kees Verwey Studio Interior 1972 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
Thaliarchus, who had been sent by King Antiochus to kill the young man, arrived in Tyre while these things were happening there. When he saw that everything was closed, he said to a boy, "Can you tell me, please, why mourning has brought the business of this city to a halt?" To him the boy said: "What a nuisance he is! He knows but still asks. Who can there be who does not know that this city is in mourning because its prince, Apollonius, suddenly disappeared after returning from Antioch?"
After hearing this news, the king's steward, Thaliarchus, joyfully returned to his ship and after a voyage of some time reached Antioch. He made his way to the king and said: "Good news, Your Highness! Young Apollonius of Tyre has suddenly disappeared because he fears the might of your kingdom." The king said, "He can go away, but he cannot get away." He immediately issued this edict:
A reward of 100 talents in gold to anyone who brings in alive to me Apollonius of Tyre, who does not respect my rule; 200 talents to anyone who brings me his head.
After the proclamation of this edict, not only Apollonius's enemies but even his friends were impelled by greed to race off on the manhunt. They hunted for Apollonius on land, mountains, and in forests, by every method of search possible, but they did not find him.
– from The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre, after anonymous Latin manuscripts of the 5th-6th century AD translating a lost Greek text of the 2nd-3rd century AD, and translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989)